Alasdair Breckenridge

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Sir Alasdair Breckenridge

Pharmacologist
EmployerUniversity of Liverpool
Awards

Sir Alasdair Muir Breckenridge,

pharmacologist
.

A native of Angus, Scotland, Breckenridge studied medicine at the University of St Andrews,[3] at a time when the medical school of that university was based in the much larger city of Dundee.

Leaving St Andrews and Dundee, he worked as a lecturer then senior lecturer at the Hammersmith Hospital and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (from 1964 to 1974) in London, after which he was professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Liverpool (until 2002).[4]

He served as chair of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency from its inception in 2003; as a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines from 1982 to 2003 (being chairman from 1999 to 2003); and as a member of the Medical Research Council from 1992 to 1996.[4] In 2005 he was appointed chair of the Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee.[5]

He was appointed

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[4][8]

He won the

in 1975. Upon his retirement from Liverpool and the National Health Service, a Festschrift was held there in his honour.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Sir Alasdair Muir Breckenridge | RCP Museum". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Statutory registers - Births". Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
  3. ^
    PMID 12755804
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  5. GOV.UK
    . Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  6. ^ "No. 54066". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 16 June 1995. p. 8.
  7. ^ "No. 57155". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 31 December 2003. p. 1.
  8. ^ United Kingdom: "No. 57155". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 31 December 2003. pp. 1โ€“28.

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