Geoffrey Burnstock #

Obituary, Function, journal of the American Physiological Society

Curriculum Vitae#

Long CV

G. BURNSTOCK, PhD, DSc, FAA, FRCS (Hon), FRCP (Hon), FMedSci, FRS

DEGREES:

• BSc (Special) King's College, University of London (Prof. Danielli) 1953
• PhD King's College and University College London, University of London (Supervisors: Prof. J.Z. Young and Dr. Peggy Brown) 1957
• MSc (Honorary) Melbourne University 1962
• DSc Melbourne University 1971
• MRCP (Hon) London 1987
• FRCS (Hon) England 1999
• FRCP (Hon) London 2000

• National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London (with Dr. W. Feldberg) 1956-1957
• Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University (with Dr. E. Bülbring) 1957-1959
• Department of Physiology, University of Illinois (with Dr. C.L. Prosser)
• Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship 1959
• University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Zoology 1959
  • Reader in Physiological Zoology 1962
  • Professor of Zoology and Chairman of Department 1964-1975
  • Associate Dean (Biological Sciences) 1969-1972
• Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1970
• Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London:
  • Head of Department 1975-1997
  • Professor of Anatomy 1975-2004
• Vice-Dean (Faculty of Medical Sciences) UCL 1980-1983
• Convener, Centre for Neuroscience, UCL 1979-
• Director, Autonomic Neuroscience Institute, Royal Free & University College Medical School 1997-2004
• President, Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, Royal Free & University College Medical School 2004-
• Emeritus Professor, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology
• University College London 2004-

• Contract Professor (University of Siena) 1985-1987
• Visiting Professor, Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, New York 1988
• Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board, Eisai London Ltd. 1990-1997
• Professor Emeritus, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne 1993-
• Contract Professor (University of Milan) 1993-1994
• Non-Executive Director, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital 1996-2002
• Chairman, Board of Clinical Studies, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital 1996-2002

• Royal Society of Victoria Silver Medal 1970
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 1971
• Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 1986
• Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) 1987
• Special Award presented at the NIH Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, September 18, l989, "For the Concept of Purinergic Transmission" 1989
• Member of Academia Europaea 1992
• Foreign Member of the Russian Society of Neuropathology 1993
• President, International Neurovegetative Society 1995-1998
• President, International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience 1995-2000
• Fellow of University College London 1995
• President (Medicine), British Association 1998
• Honorary Member of the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists 1997
• Honorary Member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1998
• Founder Fellow, Academy Medical Sciences 1998
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) 1999
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) 2000
• Janssen Award for ‘Lifetime Achievement in Digestive Sciences’ San Diego 2000
• Royal Society Royal Medal 2000
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Antwerp, Belgium 2002
• Correspondant Academicien of the Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia, Spain 2003
• Honorary Member of the Physiological Society 2003
• Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society 2004
• Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Australia 2006
• Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology 2006
• Doctor Honoris Causa J. W. Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt) 2007
• Honorary Member of the Australian Physiological Society 2008
• Copernicus Gold Medal, Ferrara 2009
• The British Neuroscience Association. Annual Award for 'Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience'