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British Pharmacological Society
The British Pharmacological Society is the primary UK learned society for pharmacologists concerned with research into drugs and the way they work. Members work in academia, industry, regulatory agencies and the health services, and many are medically qualified. The Society covers the whole spectrum of pharmacology, including laboratory, clinical, and toxicological aspects. Clinical pharmacology is the medical speciality dedicated to promoting safe and effective use of medicines for patient benefit. Clinical pharmacologists work as consultants in the National Health Service and many hold prominent positions in UK universities. History The Society was founded in 1931, in Oxford, by a group of about 20 pharmacologists. They were brought together on the initiative of Professor James Andrew Gunn, by a letter signed by Gunn, H.H. Dale, and W.E. Dixon and sent to the heads of departments for teaching pharmacology and of institutions for pharmacological research in Great Britain, with p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hallett Dale
Sir Henry Hallett Dale (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi. Early life and education Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington, London, to Charles James Dale, a pottery manufacturer from Staffordshire, and his wife, Frances Anne Hallett, daughter of a furniture manufacturer, from South Devon.Feldberg W, rev. Tansey EM (2004–2011)Dale, Sir Henry Hallett (1875–1968) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-08. Henry was the third of seven children, one of whom (his younger brother, Benjamin Dale) became an accomplished composer and warden of the Royal Academy of Music. Henry was educated at the local Tollington Park College and then The Leys School Cambridge (one of the school's hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy MacArthur Clark
Judy MacArthur Clark is a British veterinary surgeon, and former President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. She has held government posts in the regulation of veterinary medicine. Career Clark was chairwoman of the Farm Animal Welfare Council, now the Animal Welfare Committee, from 1999. She was appointed Chief Inspector of the Home Office unit for Animals in Science Regulations in 2007 and remained in that post until standing down in 2016. As part of that role, she led the Three Rs (animal research) programme. Clark was president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from 1992 to 1993. Clark is a policy advisor for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She is Chair of the Trustees of the Soulsby Foundation. She worked on the development of legislation for the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. Clark was the first president, in 2006, of the International Association of Colleges of Laboratory Animal Medicine. Clark was employed as Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Burnstock
Geoffrey Burnstock (10 May 1929 – 2 June 2020) was a neurobiologist and President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre of the UCL Medical School. He is best known for coining the term purinergic signalling, which he discovered in the 1970s. He retired in October 2017 at the age of 88. Life and career Burnstock was educated at Greenford County School, King's College London (BSc, 1953) and at University College London (PhD, 1957). He played a key role in the discovery of ATP as neurotransmitter. He was appointed to a Senior Lectureship in Melbourne University in 1959 and became Professor and Chairman of Zoology in 1964. In 1975, he became Head of Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at UCL and Convenor of the Center of Neuroscience. He has been Director of the Autonomic Neuroscience Institute at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine since 1997. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1971, the Royal Society in 1986, the International Aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Brain
Susan Diana Brain is a professor of pharmacology at the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences at King's College London where she has worked since 1989.Susan Brain's Education Brain completed a PhD in pharmacology at University College London in 1981. Career and research Brain held a postdoctoral post at the Institute of Dermatology. In 1989 she took up a lectureship at King's College London, where she was promoted to Reader in 1993 and in 1998 she was made Professor of Pharmacology at the ''School of Cardiovascular Medicine,'' where since 2005 she has been Head of the ''Vascular Biology and Inflammation Section''. She was also Head of the ''Pharmacology and Therapeutics Education Department'' between 2011 and 2018. Brain's research investigates the role of sensory nerves in vascular inflammation. In her early career she discovered the Calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist (CGRP) as a potent microvascular vasodilator. More recently her research found tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Blakemore
Sir Colin Blakemore, , Hon (1 June 1944 – 27 June 2022) was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong. He was a distinguished senior fellow in the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a past Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). He was best known to the public as a communicator of science but also as the target of a long-running animal rights campaign. According to ''The Observer'', he was both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".McKie, Robin"Scientist who stood up to terrorism and mob hate faces his toughest test" ''The Observer'', 14 September 2003. Early life and education Blakemore was born in Stratfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Blackburn (pharmacologist)
Tom Blackburn Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society, FBPharmacolS, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, FRSB (born 1949) is a British industrial pharmacologist. Blackburn studied at both the University of Nottingham and Manchester University, and worked as a senior manager at Imperial Chemical Industries, ICI Pharmaceuticals, Beecham (pharmaceutical company), Beecham Pharmaceuticals SmithKline Beecham, Synaptic Pharmaceutical Corporation and Helicon Therapeutics. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers, reviews and book chapters and holds over 20 patents. He is President Emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society and is a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society (Hon FBPharmacolS) in 2014 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). References External links * * - conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Berridge
Sir Michael John Berridge (22 October 1938 – 13 February 2020) was a British physiologist and biochemist. Born and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he was best known for his work on cellular transmembrane signalling, in particular the discovery that inositol trisphosphate acts as a second messenger, linking events at the plasma membrane with the release of Ca2+ within the cell.Lagnado J. New honorary members for the Biochemical Society. ''The Biochemist'' (December 2004) (accessed 7 January 2009) , he was the Emeritus Babraham Fellow in the Signalling Programme Department of the |
Y S Bakhle
Yeshwant S. Bakhle (born 1936), is a British pharmacologist. Bakhle studied chemistry, with supplementary chemical pharmacology, in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, later obtaining both a DPhil and, in 1993, a DSc there. He spent two years at Yale University as a Fulbright Fellow, then in 1965 obtained a position at the Royal College of Surgeons' Department of Pharmacology under John Vane. He was appointed reader in biochemical pharmacology there in 1980. Later in his career, he moved to the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, as a senior research fellow, a position which became honorary upon his retirement. He served as a senior editor at the ''British Journal of Pharmacology'' from 2001 to 2006, and was subsequently press editor there. He became an Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society The British Pharmacological Society is the primary UK learned society for pharmacologists concerned with research in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. The Nobel Prize is presented annually on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, 10 December. As of 2022, 114 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded to 226 laureates, 214 men and 12 women. The first one was awarded in 1901 to the German physiologist, Emil von Behring, for his work on serum therapy and the development of a vaccine against diphtheria. The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Gerty Cori, received it in 1947 for her role in elucidati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Otto Schild
Heinz Otto Schild (18 May 190615 June 1984), was a pharmacologist now known for the development of the Schild plot. Life H.O. Schild was born into a Jewish family in what was Fiume, Austria-Hungary, and is now Rijeka, Croatia. During the rise of fascism he was schooled in Munich (from 1915) then Budapest (from 1917). He studied medicine in Munich and Berlin in the 1920s, with later studies focused on Pharmacology. In 1932s he moved to England to work in Henry Dale's laboratory, working also with John Gaddum. In 1937 he married Mireille Madeline Haquin. As an enemy alien (in his case, an Italian citizen) in the UK before the Second World War, he was interned during 1939-1940 on the Isle of Man. However, his release from the camp was eventually secured by appeals from the scientific community; he stayed in Britain and gained British citizenship in 1948. Work He is particularly known for: *The role of histamine in anaphylaxis *Rigorous bioassay methods, including Schild regressi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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