Leszek Borysiewicz
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Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRS FRCP FMedSci FLSW |
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Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, in academic dress, at the Senate House in July 2014
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| 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2010 |
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| Chancellor | |
| Preceded by | Dame Alison Richard |
| Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council | |
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In office 1 October 2007 – 30 September 2010 |
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| Minister | |
| Preceded by | Colin Blakemore |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Savill |
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Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz 13 April 1951 Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Residence | Cambridge, England |
| Alma mater |
Welsh National School of Medicine Royal Postgraduate Medical School |
| Occupation | Immunologist and academic |
Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz FRS FRCP FMedSci FLSW (born 13 April 1951) is a British immunologist and scientific administrator. He is currently the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, his term of office (a maximum of seven years) having started on 1 October 2010. Borysiewicz was formerly chief executive of the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council.
Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz) was born in Cardiff, Wales, to Jan and Zofia (née Wołoszyn) Borysiewicz, ethnic Polish World War II-era refugees (from what is present-day Belarus) who came to Great Britain with the Anders' Army.
Borysiewicz studied medicine at Welsh National School of Medicine and received a PhD from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1986 for his thesis, entitled Cell mediated immunity to human cytomegalovirus infection (cytotoxic T cell and natural killer cell mediated lysis of human cytomegalovirus infected cells).
Borysiewicz pursued a career in academic medicine at the University of Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Wolfson College, and then as a consultant at Hammersmith Hospital. He headed the Department of Medicine at the University of Wales before joining Imperial College London, where he was promoted to Deputy Rector responsible "for the overall academic and scientific direction of the College," In September 2007, it was reported he would succeed Colin Blakemore as the 9th head of the Medical Research Council, a national organisation that supports medical science with an annual budget of around £500 million.
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