Michael Newton Marsh
{{Short description|British academic (1937–2021)}}
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Professor Michael Newton Marsh, DM, DSc, DPhil, FRCP (15 May 1937 – 12 July 2021) was a reader of medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford, and became an academic biomedical research physician in Manchester, known for his expertise on coeliac disease.{{Cite journal |last=Watts |first=Geoff |date=28 August 2021 |title=Michael Newton Marsh |journal=The Lancet |volume=398 |issue=10302 |pages=740 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01893-6 |issn=0140-6736|doi-access=free }}
Career
In 2006, Marsh received a Distinguished Investigator Award for his work on gluten intolerance (coeliac disease), and his classification of intestinal responses, which are now internationally adopted.Marsh M (1992). "Gluten, major histocompatibility complex, and the small intestine. A molecular and immunobiologic approach to the spectrum of gluten sensitivity ('celiac sprue')". Gastroenterology 102 (1): 330–54. {{PMID|1727768}}.{{Cite web |last=Mandic |first=Maria |date=2021-08-10 |title=In Memoriam: Professor Michael Newton Marsh |url=https://www.bsg.org.uk/news/in-memoriam-professor-michael-n-marsh/ |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=The British Society of Gastroenterology |language=en-GB}}{{Cite journal |last1=Rostami |first1=Kamran |last2=Mulder |first2=Chris JJ |last3=Sanders |first3=David S. |date=2022-02-01 |title=Obituary Professor Michael N Marsh BTh, DPhil, DM, DSc, FRCP |url=https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/2/436 |journal=Gut |language=en |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=436 |doi=10.1136/gutjnl-2021-326046 |issn=0017-5749 |pmid=34548337|doi-access=free }} Marsh received two lifetime achievement awards.{{when|date=May 2018}}
While approaching retirement, Marsh received an Oxford degree in theology, subsequently returning to Magdalen to write a D.Phil. thesis on neurophysiological and theological approaches to near-death and out-of-body experiential phenomenology. In later life, he was at Wolfson College and, in addition, a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford.
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Category:21st-century English medical doctors
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Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
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