Prof. Sir John Irving Bell

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