David Brown (pharmacology professor)

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David Anthony Brown,

FBPhS (1936 - 2023)[1] was emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at University College London, having joined the department in April 1987 and served as Head of Department from October 1987 to April 2002.[2][3][4]

Education

He graduated from University College with a BSc degree in

St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College
with a PhD in pharmacology.

Career and research

Prior to joining UCL he was Wellcome Professor of Pharmacology at the

Texas, and the University of Kanazawa (Japan), and has been a Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence at the National Institutes of Health in the United States.[4]

His publications are widespread and well known, having had his work published in prominent journals such as the British Journal of Pharmacology and the

Trends in Neurosciences and Proceedings of the Royal Society.[4]

Awards and honours

Brown was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990, an Honorary Fellow and sometime Council Member of the British Pharmacological Society, an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology (1980) and an Elected Fellow of Academia Europaea (1996). He won the Feldberg Foundation Prize in 1992.

References

  1. ^ Page, Clive. "In memoriam: Professor David Brown | British Pharmacological Society". www.bps.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  2. ^ "David Brown | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
  3. ^ "David A. Brown Lab". University College London. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b c "David Brown - Faculty Profile at University College London website". Retrieved 8 June 2022.
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