William David Richardson FRS FLS (born 18 August 1951) has been Director of the

UCL Wolfson Institute The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at UCL is an academic department of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of University College London located in London, United Kingdom. The Institute is situated in the Cruciform Building, formerly t ...

since 2012. He was educated at the

Royal Belfast Academical Institution The Royal Belfast Academical Institution is an independent grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. With the support of Belfast's leading reformers and democrats, it opened its doors in 1814. Until 1849, when it was superseded by what today is ...

, the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

(BSc Physics, 1973) and King's College London (PhD, 1978).‘RICHARDSON, Prof. William David’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016 He was a Lecturer in Molecular Genetics at

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from 1985 to 1990 and has been Professor of Biology at the

since 1993. He was made a

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in 2013. He is also a Fellow of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Richardson, William David 1951 births Living people People educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution Alumni of the University of Manchester Alumni of King's College London Academics of University College London Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)