Mark Richmond

British biochemist, microbiologist and academic

Biochemist
Microbiologist
Academic

Employers

NIMR
University of Edinburgh
University of Bristol
University of Manchester
Glaxo

Sir Marcus Henry Richmond, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS (born 1 February 1931), known as Mark Richmond, is a British biochemist, microbiologist and academic.

Early life and education

Richmond was born in 1931, the son of H. S. Richmond, a film producer. He was educated at Epsom College from 1944 to 1949,^[1] and then studied biochemistry at Clare College, Cambridge, and remained there as a postgraduate for three years.^[1]^[2]

Career

Following his doctorate he worked for the National Institute for Medical Research, subsequent to which he was a reader in molecular biology at the University of Edinburgh.^[2]

In 1968 he became Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Bristol, working on staphylococcal plasmids and antibiotic resistance.^[2] From 1981 he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester.^[2]

He became Global Head of Research for Glaxo in 1991.^[2]

He retired in 1996 and took up a position as Honorary Fellow in the School of Public Policy at University College London.^[2]

He served as chair of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom and of the Science and Engineering Research Council during his time at Manchester.^[2] Following formal retirement, he has been a non-executive director of several companies, including Genentech, OSI Pharmaceuticals and Ark Therapeutics.^[2]

Awards and honours

He received the Robert Koch Medal in 1976, and the Biochemical Society's Colworth Medal.^[when?]^[2] In 1982 he received the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy's Garrod Medal and delivered its accompanying lecture.^[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980^[4] and was knighted in the 1986 Birthday Honours.^[5] He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Professor Sir Marcus Henry Richmond (born 1931). M.A. Ph.D., D.Sc. (Cantab.), Hon.LL.D., F.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.Path., F.R.S. – Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University" (PDF). Epsom College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2008). Superbugs and Superdrugs: A History of MRSA. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-114-1. OL 23194335M. Wikidata Q29581755.
^ "Garrod Lecture & Medal". The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2021. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
^ "Mark Richmond". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
^ United Kingdom list: "No. 50551". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1986. p. 2.