Alex Markham

Sir Alex Markham is a Professor of Medicine and was Director of the MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre in Leeds and joined the St Gemma’s Board of Trustees in April 2021.

He has made various contributions to medical science, is a physician and pathologist, and trained initially in medicinal chemistry. His commercial experience includes cancer drug development and the introduction of DNA Fingerprinting for medico-legal applications (Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement in 1990).

A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Alex served as Chairman of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) establishing the National Cancer Intelligence Network. He was a member of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration Board and the National Institute of Health Research Advisory Board. He has chaired numerous MRC, BHF, and Wellcome Trust Committees and was a Trustee of Arthritis Research UK. He chaired the Translational Medicine Board for MRC and NIHR under the auspices of the Treasury’s Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR), and now chairs the OSCHR Health Informatics Group. He is chairman of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.