Richard Green (neuropharmacologist)
Professor Richard Green (born 1944) is a British neuropharmacologist.
Professor Richard Green | |
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| Born | 1944 (age 75–76) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
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
- 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
- "Professor Richard Green PhD DSc". British Pharmacological Society. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
External links
- Richard Green on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website