Medicine:Sheild Professor of Pharmacology

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The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology is the senior professorship in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. It is named in honour of Marmaduke Sheild.[1]

The position was originally established on 7 June 1946 as a personal chair for the tenure of Ernest Basil Verney. On 11 March 1961 the professorship was re-established on a permanent basis.[2]

List of Sheild Professors of Pharmacology

  • 1946–1962 Ernest Basil Verney
  • 1962–1971 Arnold Burgen
  • 1973–1978 Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
  • 1979–1999 Alan Cuthbert
  • 1999–2013 Peter Anthony McNaughton
  • 2017–2022 John Michael Edwardson
  • 2022–present Mark Howarth

References

  1. The Man Who Never Was – Walter Ernest Dixon FRS: The Seventh W.D.M. Paton Memorial Lecture by Alan W Cuthbert in The British Journal of Pharmacology (2001) 133, 945–950
  2. Cambridge University Database