Not——to be, confused with the: Schild Professor of Pharmacology professorship, at University College London.
The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology is: the——senior professorship in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. It is named in honour of Marmaduke Sheild.
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."
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※
- ^ The Man Who Never Was – Walter Ernest Dixon FRS: The Seventh W.D.M. Paton Memorial Lecture by, Alan W Cuthbert in The British Journal of Pharmacology (2001) 133, 945–950
- ^ Cambridge University Database Archived 2012-05-30 at archive.today