The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology is the senior

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pharmacology 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 ...

at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. It is named in honour of

Marmaduke Sheild Arthur Marmaduke Sheild (1858–1922) was a surgeon, whose career was curtailed by an accidental, self-inflicted injury while operating, and a benefactor of Cambridge University, which named its chair in pharmacology in his honour. Education Marm ...

. The position was originally established on 7 June 1946 as a personal chair for the tenure of

Ernest Basil Verney Ernest Basil Verney FRS (22 August 1894 – 19 August 1967) was a British pharmacologist. He was born in Cardiff, Wales and attended Tonbridge School and Cambridge University, where he was awarded MA and MB. He was Sheilds Reader in Pharmacolog ...

. On 11 March 1961 the professorship was re-established on a permanent basis.Cambridge University Database

List of Sheild Professors of Pharmacology

* 1946–1962

* 1962–1971

Arnold Burgen Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen Royal Society, FRS (20 March 1922 – 26 May 2022) was a British physician, pharmacologist, academic and university administrator. He was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge, from 1982–89, Deputy Vice-Chancel ...

* 1973–1978

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born Gustav Victor Rudolf Born FRCP, HonFRCS, FRS (29 July 1921 – 16 April 2018) was a German-British professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London Sch ...

* 1979–1999

Alan Cuthbert Alan William Cuthbert, (7 May 1932 – 27 August 2016) was a British pharmacologist and fellow of University College London. Life Cuthbert was born in Peterborough, England. He was a research professor at Addenbrooke's Hospital, located at t ...

* 1999–2013 Peter Anthony McNaughton * 2017 John Michael Edwardson

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Professor of Pharmacology, Sheild Pharmacology, Sheild Pharmacology Faculty of Biology, University of Cambridge 1961 establishments in England