Tim Biscoe#
Membership Number: | 1075 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 1991 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 Emeritus Professor, University of London
- 1995 - 2000 Pro-Provost (China) University College London
- 1992 - 1995 Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Hong Kong
- 1991 Head of the Graduate School at University College London
- 1991 Director of the Board of University College London Initiatives
- 1990 Vice-Provost, University College London
- 1986,1989 British Council sponsored Visiting Professor at the Medical School in Papua New Guinea
- 1989 Jodrell Professor of Physiology University College London, rotated the Chairmanship
- 1979 Jodrell Professor of Physiology and Chairman of Department of Physiology, University College London
- 1975 Chairman, Department of Physiology, Bristol University
- 1970 Research Professor in Physiology, Bristol University
- 1968 Research Associate, Department of Physiology, University of Bristol
- 1966 - 1968 Associate Research Physiologist, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco
- 1965 - 1966 Research Fellow, Physiology Department, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra.
- 1962 - 1965 Senior Scientific Officer, A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge
- 1957 - 1958 House Surgeon to Thoracic Unit, then House Physician to Lord Evans at the London Hospital
Fields of Scholarship
- neuroscience
- chemical transmission in cns
- chemoreception
- neurological mutants
- intra cellular chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Canada
- 1991 Member of Academia Europea
- 2000 Honorary Fellow University College London