Geoffrey Burnstock#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1172 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Geoffrey Burnstock passed away June 2, 2020.
Positions Held
- 2000 - FRCP (Hon) London
- 1999 - FRCS (Hon) England
- 1971 - DSc Melbourne University
- 1962 - MSc (Honorary) Melbourne University
- 1957 - PhD King's College and University College London, University of London
- 1953 - BSc (Special) King's College, University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Autonomic neuroscience, in particular purinergic signalling in health and disease
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Royal Society of Victoria Silver Medal
- 1971 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1986 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 1987 Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP)
- 1989 Special Award presented at the NIH Conference, Bethesda, Sept 18, l989, "For the Concept of Purinergic Transmission"
- 1992 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1993 Foreign Member of the Russian Society of Neuropathology
- 1995 Fellow of University College London
- 1998 Founder Member of The Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1999 Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS)
- 2000 “Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digestive Science” a 2000 Janssen Award in Gastroenterology
- 2000 Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
- 2000 Royal Society Royal Gold Medal
- 2002 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Antwerp
- 2003 Correspondant Academicien of the Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia, Spain
- 2003 Honorary Member of the Physiological Society
- 2004 Honorary Fellow of the Pharmacological Society
- 2006 Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Australia
- 2006 Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
- 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa J. W. Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt)
- 2008 Honorary Member of the Australian Physiological Society
- 2009 Copernicus Gold Medal, Ferrara
- 2009 The British Neuroscience Association. Annual Award for 'Outstanding Contribution to British
- 2012 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
