Background
Savill, John Stewart was born on April 25, 1957 in London, England. Son of Peter Edward and Jean Savill.
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John Stewart Savill
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Savill was educated at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford and the University of Sheffield where he gained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1981 Savill was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy for his work on macrophages from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1989.
Career
John Savill"s research interests revolve around the role of cell death and macrophages in resolution and repair of inflammation, especially inflammatory disorders of the kidney glomerulus (glomerulonephritis) and interstitium (tubulointerstitial nephritis). Savill remains active in acute general medicine and is an Honorary Consultant Physician and Nephrologist with the Lothian University Hospitals Division. Savill has extensive experience in peer review and has a particular interest in research and development, and the career structures necessary for this, having chaired the Academy of Medical Sciences Working Party on Clinical Academic son
He was knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.
Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh since October 2002. Professor of Experimental Medicine since 1998.
Chair of Medicine since 1998
Chief Executive of the Medical Council United Kingdom since 1 October 2010. As of 2015, Savill was paid a salary of between £170,000 and £174,999 by the Medical Research Council, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
Director of the Medical Council (Medical Research Council) and University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation, where he continues to direct a group interested in the molecular cell biology of renal inflammation.
Professor of Medicine since 1998, a role he vacated in 1998. Funding
The group have received grants form the following:
Medical Council Centre Grant. (Lead applicant with Professors Doctorate Harrison, C Haslett, J Lamb and North Turner) for the Edinburgh Centre in Inflammation To August 2005 (£1,518,324).
Wellcome Trust Programme Grant.
Renewal (first applicant with Doctor South Brown) for “Macrophage interaction with cells dying by apoptosis and the regulation of glomerulonephritis”. From December 2001 for 5 years (£1,164,526).
Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in Clinical Science. Foreign Doctor Jeremy Hughes to study “Macrophage regulation of tubulointerstitial fate in renal injury and repair”.
To July 2005 (£838,538).
National Kidney Fund Senior Fellowship. Foreign Doctor Jeremy Duffield to study “Inhibitory receptor regulation of macrophage-directed glomerular cell death”. To July 2005 (£216,000).
Arthritis Campaign Clinician Scientist Fellowship.
Foreign Doctor Mohini Gray to study “Macrophage clearance of apoptotic cells and suppression of proinflammatory cytokine secretion in persistent arthritis”. To May 2006 (£461,557).
Wellcome Trust Clinician Scientist Fellowship. Foreign Doctor Lynda Stuart to study “Defective clearance f dying cells, aberrant dendritic cell maturation and autoimmunity”.
From February 2004 for 4 years (£437,844).
Achievements
Membership
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He is a member of the Lothian Health Board and chairs its Service Redesign Committee. Chairman of the Physiological Systems and Clinical Sciences Board of the Medical Research Council, and is a full member of the Council itself.
Connections
Married Barbara Savill. Children: Thomas, Edward.
