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Name
  
John Savill


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Born
  
25 April 1957 (age 67) (
1957-04-25
)

Fields
  
Medicine Immunology Apoptosis

Institutions
  
Hammersmith Hospital University of Edinburgh Medical Research Council University of Oxford University of Sheffield

Alma mater
  
St Catherine's College, Oxford (undergraduate) University of Sheffield (MB ChB) Royal Postgraduate Medical School (PhD)

Thesis
  
Macrophage recognition of senescent neutrophils (1989)

Notable awards
  
Fellow of the Royal Society (2013) Knight Bachelor (2008) FRCP FMedSci FRSE

Sir john savill


Sir John Stewart Savill, FRS, FMedSci (born 25 April 1957) is the Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK and the Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and a Vice Principal of the University of Edinburgh.

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Sir john savill chief executive of the mrc on the use of imaging in research


Education

Savill was educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford and the University of Sheffield where he gained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1981 Savill was awarded a PhD for his work on macrophages from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1989.

Research and career

Savill is widely known for his research is on apoptosis and immunology. As of 2016 Savill is active in acute general medicine and is an Honorary Consultant Physician and Nephrologist with the Lothian University Hospitals Division. He is a member of the Lothian Health Board and chairs its Service Redesign Committee.

Savill has extensive experience in peer review and has a particular interest in research and development, and the career structures necessary for this, having chaired the Academy of Medical Sciences Working Party on Clinical Academic Careers.

John Savill's research interests revolve around the role of cell death and macrophages in resolution and repair of inflammation, especially inflammatory disorders of the kidney glomerulus (glomerulonephritis) and interstitium (tubulointerstitial nephritis).

Present roles

  • Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh since October 2002.
  • Professor of Experimental Medicine since 1998.
  • Chair of Medicine since 1998
  • Chairman of the Physiological Systems and Clinical Sciences Board of the MRC, and is a full member of the Council itself.
  • Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council UK since 1 October 2010. As of 2015, Savill was paid a salary of between £170,000 and £174,999 by the MRC, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.

    • Previous roles

  • Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) and University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research, where he continues to direct a group interested in the molecular cell biology of renal inflammation.
  • Professor of Medicine since 1998, a role he vacated in 1998.

    • Awards and honours

    He was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2008 New Year Honours. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013, awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).

    References

    John Savill Wikipedia
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