Arnold Burgen#
| Membership Number: | 1 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1988 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1977-80 Member, Board of Management,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- 1975-81 Chairman,Tropical Medicine Research Board
- 1984 President, International Congress of Pharmacology, London
- 1975-78 Past-President, International Union of Pharmacology
- 1972-75 President, International Union of Pharmacology
- 1969-72 British Member of Executive Committee of International Union of Pharmacology and President- elect
- 1962-67 Editor,British Journal of Pharmacology
- 1962-71 Consultant in Research, Montreal General Hospital
- 1953-58 Chairman, Panel on Toxicology, Defence Research Board (Canada)
- 1957-64 Editor, Pharmacological Reviews
- 1965-70 Fellow of the Institute of Biology
- 1972- Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge
- 1962-71 Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge
- 1971-82 Director of National Institute for Medical Research, London (Medical Research Council)
- 1967-72 Honorary Director, Medical Research Council, Molecular Pharmacology Research Unit
- 1962-71 Sheild Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
- 1957-62 Deputy Director, McGill University Medical Clinic, Montreal General Hospital
- 1949-62 Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal
- 1948-49 Assistant Lecturer in Pharmacology
- 1946-47 House Physician, Middlesex Hospital
- 1945-46 Demonstrator in Pharmacology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School
Fields of Scholarship
- Aspects of neurotransmission by acetylcholine both in the peripheral and central nervous systems
- Understanding of what makes drugs specific which led into how ligands change the conformation of proteins
- Mechanism of drug action
- Neural transmission and enzyme inhibition
Honours and Awards
- 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
