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Sir Michael David Rawlins GBE FBPhS FMedSci (born 28 March 1941) is a British pharmacologist who was the chair of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency from 2014 to 2020, and chairman of UK Biobank until December 2019. He is an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from 1999 to 2013, and President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2012 to 2014.