Prof. Sir John Irving Bell

Personal Data

Nationality: Canadian/British
Year of Birth: July 1, 1952

1966-1971
Ridley College, Canada
1975
B Med Sci (Honours). University of Alberta
1976
BA (Honours), Physiological Sciences, 1st Class, Magdalen College, Oxford University
1979
BM, BCh. Magdalen College, Oxford University
1990
DM Magdalen College, Oxford University
1992
FRCP Royal College of Physicians, London

1979-1982
Postgraduate Clinical Training in Oxford and London
1982-1987
Clinical Fellow, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
1982-1987
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medical Microbiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
1987-1989
Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant
Physician, Nuffield Departments of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
1989-1992
University Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University
1992-2002
Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University
2006-2011
President, Academy of Medical Sciences, UK

since 1987
Hon. Consultant Physician, Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust
since 1993
Founder, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
since 1999
Chairman, Partnership Board, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
since 2002
Regius Professor of Medicine
since 2008
Knighted in the 2008 Honours list for Services to Medicine
since 2009
Fellow of the Royal Society
since 2015
Appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

Immunocore Ltd, Chairman
Genentech, Non-Executive Director
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Chair, Global Health Program Advisory Committee
Robertson Foundation, Advisor
Ewelme Almshouse Charity, Master/Trustee
The Rhodes Trust, Chair
Genome England Ltd, Non-Executive Director
Genome England Ltd Scientific Advisory Board, Chairman
Oak Foundation, Advisor
Early Disease Detection Research Platform UK, Chair