Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen#

Tabular CV below. Here is more textual and personal version.


Born: London, England, 20th March 1922

Education

  • Squires Lane School, Christ’s College and Woodhouse School, Finchley,London
  • London University(Middlesex Hospital Medical School)
  • 1945 MB, BS Hons, University Medal, University of London
  • 1946 Member Royal College of Physicians of London (MRCP)
  • 1959 MD London
  • 1962 MA Cantab

Awards & Honours
  • 1964 Fellow Royal Society (London)
  • 1969 Fellow Royal College of Physicians,London
  • 1976 Knight Bachelor
  • 1979 Hon.Fellow Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada.
  • 1984 Academico Correspondiente, Royal Academy of Spain
  • 1984 Member, American College of Physicians
  • 1984 Member of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
  • 1988 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, US
  • 1990 Academician of Finland
  • 1992 Foreign Member,Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
  • 1973 Hon.D.Sc.University of Leeds
  • 1973 Hon.D.Sc. McGill University
  • 1983 Hon.MD, University of Utrecht
  • 1983 Hon.MD. University of Zurich
  • 1983 Hon.D.Univ. University of Surrey
  • 1989 Hon.D.Sc. University of Liverpool

Posts Held
  • 1945-46 Demonstrator in Pharmacology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School
  • 1946-47 House Physician, Middlesex Hospital
  • 1948-49 Assistant Lecturer in Pharmacology
  • 1949-62 Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal
  • 1957-62 Deputy Director, McGill University Medical Clinic, Montreal General Hospital.
  • 1962-71 Sheild Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
  • 1967-72 Honorary Director, Medical Research Council, Molecular Pharmacology Research Unit
  • 1971-82 Director of National Institute for Medical Research, London (Medical Research Council)
  • 1962-71 Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge
  • 1972- Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge
  • 1965-70 Fellow of the Institute of Biology
  • 1957-64 Editor, Pharmacological Reviews
  • 1953-58 Chairman, Panel on Toxicology, Defence Research Board (Canada)
  • 1962-71 Consultant in Research, Montreal General Hospital
  • 1962-67 Editor,British Journal of Pharmacology
  • 1969-72 British Member of Executive Committee of International Union of Pharmacology and President- elect
  • 1972-75 President, International Union of Pharmacology
  • 1975-78 Past-President, International Union of Pharmacology
  • 1984 President, International Congress of Pharmacology, London.
  • 1975-81 Chairman,Tropical Medicine Research Board
  • 1977-80 Member, Board of Management,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Posts Held
  • 1971-7 Member, Medical Committee, British Council
  • 1972-78 Member, General Committee, International
  • 1982-88 Council of Scientific Unions
  • 1972-76 Member, Steering Committee, European Training Programme in Brain and Behaviour Research
  • 1972-73 Council, Royal Society
  • 1980-86 Council, Royal Society
  • 1980-86 Vice-President, Royal Society
  • 1981-86 Foreign Secretary, Royal Society
  • 1982-89 Master of Darwin College, Cambridge
  • 1985-92 Non-executive Director, Amersham International plc
  • 1985-90 Member, Executive Committee, European Science Foundation
  • 1988-1994 President, Academia Europaea
  • 1990- Honorary President. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
  • 1991- 2007 Editor, European Review
  • 1992- Advisory Editor, Dictionary of National Biography
  • 1964-68 Member of Government Grants Board, Royal Society
  • 1965-71 Member of Medical Research Committee, Royal Society
  • 1965-68 Member of Science Committee, British Heart Foundation
  • 1967-71 Member Biological Research Board, Medical Research Council
  • 1969-71 Member, Medical Research Council
  • 1973-78 Member, Medical Research Council
  • 1957- Corresponding Member German Pharmacological Society
  • 1959-62 Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry
  • 1963-1967 Member, Editorial Board, Molecular Pharmacology
  • 1966- Member, Editorial Board, International Encyclopaedia of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • 1966- Member, Editorial Board, Arch.di Scienze Biol.
  • 1975-81 Member, National Biological Standards Board
  • 1972- Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation
  • 1980- Member, Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University
  • 1982 Honorary Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • 1982-97 Trustee of the Ciba Foundation
  • 1982 Member of the Lister Institute for Preventative Medicine
  • 1982-87 Chairman, Advisory Committee on Irradiated and Novel Foods
  • 1990-93 Member. Advisory Committee of Vice- Chancellor, Cambridge University

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