Robert Lechler
Sir Robert Ian Lechler, 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. Since 2009, he has been Executive Director of King's Health Partners.
He was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset, Victoria University of Manchester, and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.
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.Honours
Lechler was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1990, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1996, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 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 during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
