Andrew Wyllie
Andrew Wyllie may refer to: * Andrew Wyllie (pathologist) * Andrew Wyllie (engineer) See also * Andrew Wylie (other) Andrew Wylie may refer to: * Andrew Wylie (footballer), manager of Reading Football Club, England between 1926 and 1931 *Andrew Wylie (college president) (1789–1851), first president of Indiana University * Andrew Wylie (judge) (1814–1905), US ...

Andrew Wyllie (pathologist)
Andrew David Hamilton Wyllie FMedSci FRS (1944 – 26 May 2022) was a Scottish pathologist. In 1972, while working with electron microscopes at the University of Aberdeen he realised the significance of natural cell death. He and his colleagues John Kerr and Alastair Currie called this process apoptosis, from the use of this word in an ancient Greek poem to mean "falling off" (like leaves falling from a tree). He completed postdoctoral training in Cambridge University and became Professor of Experimental Pathology at the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1992. He left Edinburgh for a chair at Cambridge in 1998 where he continued to lecture to undergraduate medical and natural sciences students. His works have contributed to the understanding of apoptosis in health and in disease. Apoptosis is used during early development to eliminate unwanted cells; for example, those between the fingers of a developing hand. In adults, apoptosis is used to rid the body of cells that ...
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Andrew Wyllie (engineer)
Andrew Wyllie (born December 1962) is a Scottish civil engineer who was chief executive of the UK-based Costain Group from 2005 until stepping down on 7 May 2019. In November 2018, he became the 154th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Career Wyllie grew up in Scotland, being educated at Dunfermline High School and the University of Strathclyde, graduating in 1984 with a BSc in civil engineering. Wyllie began his construction career as a graduate engineer at Taylor Woodrow in 1984, working in Saudi Arabia, Ghana and the Falkland Islands, and gained an MBA from the London Business School in 1993. After a three-year spell in business development at Taylor Woodrow, he became operations director of the firm's Africa division in 1996. In 1999, he was appointed a director of Taylor Woodrow Construction, of which he became managing director, aged 38, in July 2001. After four years in that role, he was appointed chief executive of the Costain Group in 2005, taking office i ...
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