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SUMMARY:Prevention is Better than Cure: closing lecture by the Vice Chance
 llor  - Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRS\, Fellow and Vice Chancellor
DTSTART:20151216T180000Z
DTEND:20151216T185000Z
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:_About the Series_\n\nA series of specially-commissioned 50-mi
 nute lectures to celebrate the first 50 years of Wolfson College. In the s
 eries\, eleven distinguished members of the college reflect on development
 s in their fields of expertise in the half-century since Wolfson was found
 ed.\n\n_Abstract_\n\nPublic health over five decades.\n\n_About the Lectur
 er_\n\nProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz is a former (and now Honorary) Fel
 low of Wolfson and has been the University's 345th Vice-Chancellor since O
 ctober 2010.  He was Chief Executive of the UK's Medical Research Council 
 from 2007\, and from 2001 to 2007 was at Imperial College London\, where h
 e served as Principal of the Faculty of Medicine and later as Deputy Recto
 r.\n\nBorn in Wales\, to Polish parents who settled there after the Second
  World War\, he attended Cardiff High School and went on to the Welsh Nati
 onal School of Medicine\, later taking up clinical and research posts in L
 ondon. In 1988 he came to Cambridge as Lecturer in Medicine\, and was a Fe
 llow of Wolfson College (where he is now an Honorary Fellow). He went on t
 o be Professor of Medicine at the University of Wales for the ten years un
 til 2001.\n\nAs Deputy Rector of Imperial College\, Sir Leszek was respons
 ible for the overall academic and scientific direction of the institution\
 , particularly the development of inter-disciplinary research between engi
 neering\, physical sciences and biomedicine.\n\nConcurrently with his posi
 tion at Imperial College\, Sir Leszek was also Governor of the Wellcome Tr
 ust (2006-2007)\, Chairman of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration's Int
 egrated Academic Training Awards Panel (2005-2007)\, and Chair of the HEFC
 E RAE Main Panel A Assessment Panel.\n\nHe was knighted in the 2001 New Ye
 ar's Honours List for his contribution to medical education and research i
 nto developing vaccines\, including work towards a vaccine to combat cervi
 cal cancer.\n\nHe was a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
  in 1996 and a member of its Council from 1997 until 2002\, Chairman of th
 e NHS (Wales) R&D Grants Committee and acting Director of NHS (Wales) Rese
 arch and Development (1994-1996)\, a member of the Council of Cancer Resea
 rch UK (2002-2005)\, a Non-Executive Director of North Thames Regional Hea
 lth Authority (2003-2004) and a member of the MRC Council from 1995 to 200
 0. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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