| Sir Robert Lechler | |
| Birth Date: | 24 December 1951 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Website: | https://acmedsci.ac.uk/about/governance/academy-president/professor-sir-robert-lechler |
Sir Robert Ian Lechler, (born 24 December 1951) is a British nephrologist, immunologist, and academic. He specialises in transplantation tolerance and immunology. Since 2004, he has been Professor of Immunology at King's College London.[1] [2] [3] Since 2009, he has been executive director of King's Health Partners.[4]
He was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset, Victoria University of Manchester (MB ChB 1975), and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (PhD 1983).[5]
On 29 June 2015, Lechler was appointed as President of the Academy of Medical Sciences. and began his five-year term on 3 December 2015.[6]
Lechler was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1990, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) in 1996, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2000.
In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours, Lechler was made a Knight Bachelor "for services to Academic Medicine", and therefore granted the title sir. On 7 November 2012, he was knighted by Anne, Princess Royal (acting on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II) during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.[7]