Robert Lechler

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Sir Robert Lechler
Born (1951-12-24) 24 December 1951 (age 72)
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Website https://acmedsci.ac.uk/about/governance/academy-president/professor-sir-robert-lechler

Sir Robert Ian Lechler, FRCP , FRCPath , FMedSci (born 24 December 1951) is a British nephrologist, immunologist, and academic. He specialises in transplantation tolerance and immunology. Since 2004, he has been Professor of Immunology at King's College London. [1] [2] [3] Since 2009, he has been executive director of King's Health Partners. [4]

He was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset, Victoria University of Manchester (MB ChB 1975), and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (PhD 1983). [5]

On 29 June 2015, Lechler was appointed as President of the Academy of Medical Sciences. [4] and began his five-year term on 3 December 2015. [6]

Honours

Lechler was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1990, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) in 1996, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2000. [1]

In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours, Lechler was made a Knight Bachelor "for services to Academic Medicine", and therefore granted the title sir. [7] On 7 November 2012, he was knighted by Anne, Princess Royal (acting on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II) during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Robert Ian LECHLER". People of Today. Debrett's. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  2. "Professor Sir Robert Lechler". King's Health Partners. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  3. "Professor Robert Lechler". Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. King's College London. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Professor Sir Robert Lechler announced as new Academy President". The Academy of Medical Sciences. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  5. ‘LECHLER, Sir Robert (Ian)’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
  6. "Prof Sir John Tooke and Prof Sir Robert Lechler, outgoing President and President-elect of the Academy of Medical Sciences". Science Media Centre. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  7. "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 1.
  8. "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood". The London Gazette. No. 60593. 9 August 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
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