Mark Brian Pepys FRS is Professor of Medicine at University College London

University College London

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 and English

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 Head of Medicine at the Hampstead Campus and the Royal Free Hospital. He won the GlaxoSmithKline Prize

GlaxoSmithKline Prize

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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".

Mark Pepys finished his early education at the University of Cambridge

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, and then qualified as a medical doctor at University College London Medical School. He then returned to Cambridge

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 to do a PhD

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 in Immunology

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 in 1973. In 1999 he became director of the University College London

University College London

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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 amyloid

Amyloid

Amyloids are insoluble fibrous protein aggregates sharing specific structural traits. Abnormal accumulation of amyloid in organs may lead to amyloidosis, and may play a role in various neurodegenerative diseases.-Definition:...

 diseases, established by Imperial College London

Imperial College London

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in recognition of leaders in their fields.