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 | |
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Born | Leslie Lars Iversen 31 October 1937 Exeter, England |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Spouse(s) | Susan Iversen CBE FMedSci |
Scientific career | |
Fields | pharmacology |
Institutions | University 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
- 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
- "Leslie Iversen". Royal Society.
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