Arnold Burgen#
| Membership Number: | 1 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1977 - 1980 Member, Board of Management,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- 1975 - 1981 Chairman,Tropical Medicine Research Board
- 1984 President, International Congress of Pharmacology, London
- 1975 - 1978 Past-President, International Union of Pharmacology
- 1972 - 1975 President, International Union of Pharmacology
- 1969 - 1972 British Member of Executive Committee of International Union of Pharmacology and President- elect
- 1962 - 1967 Editor,British Journal of Pharmacology
- 1962 - 1971 Consultant in Research, Montreal General Hospital
- 1953 - 1958 Chairman, Panel on Toxicology, Defence Research Board (Canada)
- 1957 - 1964 Editor, Pharmacological Reviews
- 1965 - 1970 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 - 1962 Deputy Director, McGill University Medical Clinic, Montreal General Hospital
- 1949 - 1962 Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal
- 1948 - 1949 Assistant Lecturer in Pharmacology
- 1946 - 1947 House Physician, Middlesex Hospital
- 1945 - 1946 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
