Sir Alexander Fred Markham, born 1950, is professor of medicine at the University of Leeds, director of the Molecular Medicine Institute at St James's University Hospital, and a former chief executive of Cancer Research UK.
Markham serves on a number of advisory panels for the Medical Research Council and the Department of Health.
He is chairman of the Office for the Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) Translational Medicine Board.
He is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a former chairman of the National Cancer Research Institute.
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