Sir Mark Brian Pepys (born 18 September 1944) is a South African-born British academic of medicine. He was until 2011 Professor of Medicine at

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and Head of Medicine at the Hampstead Campus and the Royal Free Hospital.

Education

Pepys was born in

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, South Africa, the son of physician Jack Pepys and Rhoda Gertrude Pepys (''née'' Kussel). He moved to the UK in 1948. He finished his early education at the

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, and then qualified as a medical doctor at

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. He then returned to Cambridge where he was awarded a

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in 1973.

Awards and honours

Pepys won the

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in 2007 "for his excellent work as a clinical scientist who has identified specific proteins as new therapeutic targets and developed novel drugs with potential use in amyloidosis, Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular disease". In 1998, Pepys was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). His nomination reads: In 1999, he became director of the

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Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Proteins. Mark Pepys has recently won the 2008 Ernst Chain Prize for his work on

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diseases, established by

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in recognition of leaders in their fields. Pepys was

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in the

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for services to biomedicine.

References

1944 births Living people People from Cape Town South African scientists Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Knights Bachelor Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists {{England-scientist-stub

Education

Awards and honours

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