Salvador Moncada#
Membership Number: | 1214 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 1992 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Director of the Institute of Cancer Sciences at the University of Manchester
- 1996 - 2012 Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute at University College London
- 1986 - 1995 Research Director of the Wellcome Research Laboratoriesuntil recently, the in 1996.
Fields of Scholarship
- Inflammation
- Vascular biology
- Regulation of cell proliferation
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1994 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- 1994 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London
- 1999 Honorary Fellow of University College, London
- Honorary degrees from more than twenty universities, including Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA (1995); Degree of Doctor “Honoris Causa” of the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France (1997) and Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2000)
- The VIII Gaddum Memorial Lecture, British Pharmacological Society (1980); The Ulf von Euler Memorial Lecture, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1991); The Paul Dudley White Lecture, American Heart Association, Anaheim, California, USA (1991)
- 1994 The Royal Medal of the Royal Society, UK
- 1996 The Gregory Pincus Memorial Lecture, the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts, USA
- 1997 The Louis and Artur Lucian Award (jointly with Prof. R. Furchgott), McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 2000 The Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture to the Physiological Society, UK
- 2000 The Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK
- 2002 Le Grand Prix Annuel Lefoulon-Delalande, from the Institut de France, Paris
- 2005 The Croonian Lecture at the Royal Society, London, UK
- 2011 The Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine from the University of Debrecen, Hungary
- 2010 The Dohme Lecture, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
- January 2010 awarded a Knighthood for Services to Science
- 2013 Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine (Ernst Jung Prize)