Sir John Bell

Sir John Bell is respected, both in the UK and internationally, as a clinician scientist with a remarkable record of research in the areas of genetics and genomics.

Bell is president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford, and chair of the UK government’s Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research.  He is the founder of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and is a leader in the biomedical research activities in the Clinical School at Oxford.

Bell studied medicine as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and is the founding director of three biotechnology start-up companies.  He has participated in a wide range of international advisory panels for public and private sector bodies responsible for biomedical research.  He has also been a member of the Oxford University Council and its Medical Research Council.  He has served as chairman of the Oxford Health Alliance, the partnership board of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and the management committee of the Richard Doll Building for Trials and Epidemiology at Oxford.

In 2008, Bell was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and received a knighthood for his services to medical science.