Richard Green (neuropharmacologist)

Professor
Richard Green
Born 1944 (age 73–74)
Nationality United Kingdom

Professor Richard Green (born 1944) is a British neuropharmacologist.

Green obtained his PhD in 1969 under the supervision of Gerald Curzon, and then spent two years at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington DC.[1]

He then obtained a position at the Medical Research Council's Clinical Pharmacology Unit in Oxford, rising to become its Assistant Unit Director in 1981.[1]

He took up the role of Director of the Astra Neuroscience Research Unit in 1986. Ten years later he became Director of the Global Discovery CNS & Pain Control, for Astra.[1]

Upton formal retirement in 2007 he undertook psychopharmacology research as Honorary Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Nottingham.[1]

He was given his DSc by London University in 1988 and the British Association for Psychopharmacology's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.[1]

He is a President Emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society, and was elected an Honorary Fellow by them in 2013, and is a former President of the Serotonin Club.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Caroline Overy; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2013), Drugs Affecting 5-HT Systems, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-902238-87-9 , Wikidata Q29581800
  2. ↑ "Professor Richard Green PhD DSc". British Pharmacological Society. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
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