Mark Walport

“As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.”

“We're learning how infections are travelling around the world and, sadly, how cholera in Haiti was brought in by U.N. peacekeeping forces from south Asia.”

“There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior pr...”

“The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate genetic variation with individual variation...”

“People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some...”

“The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.”

“People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the values discussion gets conflated with the science discussion. We shou...”

“We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food security. But we have limited land in the U.K., and climate disrup...”

“Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.”

“Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system.”

“Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are minimised, it is a less harmful fossil fuel than coal and oil and is an...”

“It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.”

“We do some experiments in humans, some in mice, and there are some questions that can only be answered in nonhuman primates. It's true that you can't immediately say that those experiments w...”

“There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.”

“My job is to advise politicians, elected officials, and government ministries of the best way to deal with important issues, both localized, national, and the grand challenges facing humanit...”

“We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.”

“Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.”

“Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is considered by many to be a highly desirabl...”

“Henry Wellcome certainly was a talented character with a colorful and amazing personal story.”

“Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.”