Derek George Smyth
Derek Smyth | |
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| Born | 24 April 1927 Battersea Polytechnic, University of London |
Derek Smyth FRSC (born 24 April 1927) is a British biochemist who specialises in peptide structure and function. In 2002, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[1]
Background
Smyth started working at the
His major contribution came from studies of β-lipotropin, now recognised as a component of the pro-opiomelanocortin locus.[4][5]
After retiring from NIMR, Smyth continued his research at the Institute for Molecular Biology in Salzburg, in the Pharmacology Department of the University of Murcia and in the William Harvey Research Institute, University of London. For a number of years (1977-1982) he was invited formally to assist the Nobel Committee in their nomination of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[citation needed] and in 1997 he was elected as an honorary member (Excmo) of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery in Murcia.[citation needed]
References
- document ID 318606918.
- OCLC 1148218832.
- OCLC 1151061019.
- OCLC 1033595208.
- endorphins seems likely to be the C-Fragment. A much more potent analgesicthan any of the other endorphins … it is also much longer-lived in the brain. This led Dr Smyth to suggest that one function of the C-Fragment might be in the long-term control of pain …