Roderick John Flower , also known as Rod, is a British

pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...

, and professor at

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry , mottoeng = Temper the bitter things in life with a smile , parent = Queen Mary University of London , president = Lord Mayor of London , head_label = Warden , head = Mark Caulfield , students = 3,410 , undergrad = 2,23 ...

. Dr. Flower is a member of the board of directors of

Antibe Therapeutics Antibe Therapeutics is a Toronto-based pharmaceutical company that develops pain and inflammation-reducing drugs based on gaseous mediator technology. Antibe was founded by John L. Wallace, also a co-founder of NicOx, the first company to deve ...

and on the scientific advisory board of Morria. Flower was educated at

Woodbridge School Woodbridge School is an independent school in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, founded in 1577, for the poor of Woodbridge. It was later supported by the Seckford Foundation. Woodbridge School has been co-educational since September 1974. Histor ...

, and graduated with a first class degree in Physiology, from the

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

in 1971. He was Chair of Pharmacology at the

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

from 1985 to 1990. He was Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, from 1994 to 2007. He was President of the

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 medi ...

from 2000 to 2003.

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* http://www.uel.ac.uk/wwwmedia/schools/hab/research/ProfRoderickFlower-PublicLecture-UEL-2Nov2011.pdf * {{DEFAULTSORT:Flower, Roderick Alumni of the University of Sheffield Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Academics of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Living people British pharmacologists Fellows of the British Pharmacological Society Year of birth missing (living people)