David Weatherall

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Sir David John Weatherall (March 9, 1933 - December 8, 2018 ) was a British molecular geneticist and medical doctor ( hematology , pathology ).

Career

Weatherall studied medicine at the University of Liverpool with a degree in 1956 (MD, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery MB ChB). He then spent two years in the army (including in Nepal ) and on a scholarship at Johns Hopkins University before returning to Liverpool University, where he became professor of hematology . In 1974 he became Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine at Oxford University and from 1992 to 2000 he was Regius Professor of Medicine there . In 1989 he founded the Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford, which was named after him after his retirement (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine). After his retirement in 2000 he was Chancellor of Keele University .

Weatherall was a leading expert on thalassemia , a genetic disease characterized by abnormally altered production of globins . Since the 1970s he built up a research network (for example with Thailand , Laos , Kenya , Vietnam ) on thalassemia and was able to improve its clinical treatment in third world countries where diseases play a special role.

In 2002 he was the lead author of a report for the WHO on the application of genetic engineering to world health issues.

In 1987 he was ennobled. He was active in the British Humanist Association. In 2010 he won the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science (after the laudation for his leading international role in biomedicine over the past 50 years), the Prince Mahidol Prize in 2001 and the William Allan Award in 2003 . In 1994 he was awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society . In 2011 he received the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians . In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academia Europaea , in 1990 to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2005 to the American Philosophical Society .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement on the appointment of David John Weatherall as Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford in the London Gazette, October 7, 1992.
  2. ↑ Genomics and Global Health , WHO 2002, pdf
  3. ^ Member History: Sir David J. Weatherall. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weatherall, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weatherall, David John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British molecular biologist and medical doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1933
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2018