Sir Mark Jonathan Caulfield MD, FRCP, FESC, FPharm, FBHS, FMedSci (born 19 July 1960) is a British genomic medicine researcher and Warden of

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. He is the professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the William Harvey Research Institute in

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. He was awarded a knighthood in the

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Early life and education

Caulfield was born in 1960. His Irish parents raised him in North London. He attended

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in Finchley and

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where he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1984. With his medical degree, Caulfield trained at

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where he developed a research program in molecular genetics of hypertension.

Career

In 2002, Caulfield was appointed Director of the William Harvey Research Institute at

. While there, he was elected to the

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and awarded the Lilly Prize of the

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. From 2009 until 2011, Caulfield also served as President of the British Hypertension Society, while also directing the

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(NIHR) Barts Biomedical Research Centre. In 2013, Caulfield was appointed to Chief Scientist for

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, a non profit company ran through the Department of Health. He was charged with the scientific strategic oversight and delivery of the 100 000 Genomes Project which is a healthcare transformation applying whole genome sequencing to rare disease, cancer, and infection. ". By 2014, Caulfield was reported to be a Highly Cited Researcher as determined by Thomson Reuters. A few years later, he received the Franz Volhard Award and Lectureship for Outstanding Research by the International Society of Hypertension. By 2018, Caulfield was reported to be one the top “influential researchers” in the world. Caulfield was awarded a knighthood in the

. He also agreed to act as interim Chief Executive of Genomics England following the department of John Mattick. In 2022, Sir Mark was appointed as Vice-Principal Health for Queen Mary University of London, also known as the Warden of

Personal life

Caulfield married his wife Fran in 1991 and they have two daughters together. Sarah studied at

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and is a practicing Veterinary Surgeon, and Rachel studied Medicine at

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. In a June 2017 interview he claimed to be a workaholic with few hobbies, aside from walking, particularly in Germany, playing golf "badly" and gardening "often unsuccessfully".

References

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