Sheild Professor of Pharmacology explained

The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology is the senior professorship in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. It is named in honour of Marmaduke Sheild.^[1]

The position was originally established on 7 June 1946 as a personal chair for the tenure of Ernest Basil Verney. On 11 March 1961 the professorship was re-established on a permanent basis.^[2]

List of Sheild Professors of Pharmacology

• 1946 - 1962 Ernest Basil Verney
• 1962 - 1971 Arnold Burgen
• 1973 - 1978 Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
  • 1979 - 1999 Alan Cuthbert 1999 - 2013 Peter Anthony McNaughton
• 2017 - 2022 John Michael Edwardson
• 2022 - present Mark Howarth

References

1. http://www.nature.com/bjp/journal/v133/n7/full/0704175a.html#aff1 The Man Who Never Was – Walter Ernest Dixon FRS: The Seventh W.D.M. Paton Memorial Lecture
2. http://venn.csi.cam.ac.uk/ACAD/lists/index.html Cambridge University Database