Leslie Iversen

Leslie Lars Iversen CBE FRS MAE (born 1937), is a British pharmacologist, known for his work on the neurochemistry of synaptic transmitters.

Leslie Iversen

CBE FRS MAE
Born
Leslie Lars Iversen

(1937-10-31) 31 October 1937
Exeter, England
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Spouse(s)Susan Iversen CBE FMedSci
Scientific career
Fieldspharmacology
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of Cambridge

From 1971 to 1982, Iversen was Director of the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge. Between 1982 and 1995 he worked as Director of the Merck, Sharp & Dohme Neuroscience Research Centre. In 1995 he became Visiting Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford.[1]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980[2] and gave the Society's Ferrier Lecture in 1988.

References
  1. Tilli Tansey; Peter Catterall; Sonia V Willhoft; Daphne Christie; Lois Reynolds, eds. (1997), Technology Transfer in Britain: The Case of Monoclonal Antibodies; Self and Non-Self: A History of Autoimmunity; Endogenous Opiates; The Committee on Safety of Drugs, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-1-869835-79-8, Wikidata Q29581528
  2. "Leslie Iversen". Royal Society.


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