!!Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen

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__Born:__ London, England, 20th March 1922
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__Education	__
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*Squires Lane School, Christ’s College and Woodhouse School, Finchley,London
*London University(Middlesex Hospital Medical School) 
*1945 MB, BS Hons, University Medal, University of London
*1946	Member Royal College of Physicians of London (MRCP)
*1959   MD London
*1962   MA Cantab
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__Awards & Honours__	
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*1964 Fellow Royal Society (London)
*1969 Fellow Royal College of Physicians,London 
*1976 Knight Bachelor
*1979 Hon.Fellow Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada.
*1984 Academico Correspondiente, Royal Academy of Spain	
*1984 Member, American College of Physicians
*1984 Member of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
*1988 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, US
*1990 Academician of Finland
*1992 Foreign Member,Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
*1973 Hon.D.Sc.University of Leeds
*1973 Hon.D.Sc. McGill University
*1983 Hon.MD, University of Utrecht
*1983 Hon.MD. University of Zurich
*1983 Hon.D.Univ. University of Surrey
*1989 Hon.D.Sc. University of Liverpool
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__Posts Held  __                  
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*1945-46 Demonstrator in Pharmacology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School 
*1946-47 House Physician, Middlesex Hospital
*1948-49 Assistant Lecturer in Pharmacology
*1949-62 Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal
*1957-62 Deputy Director, McGill University Medical Clinic, Montreal General Hospital.
*1962-71 Sheild Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
*1967-72 Honorary Director, Medical Research Council, Molecular Pharmacology Research Unit
*1971-82 Director of National Institute for Medical Research, London (Medical Research Council)
*1962-71 Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge
*1972-	Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge
*1965-70 Fellow of the Institute of Biology
*1957-64 Editor, Pharmacological Reviews
*1953-58 Chairman, Panel on Toxicology, Defence Research Board (Canada)
*1962-71 Consultant in Research, Montreal General Hospital
*1962-67 Editor,British Journal of Pharmacology
*1969-72 British Member of Executive Committee of International Union of Pharmacology and President- elect
*1972-75 President, International Union of Pharmacology
*1975-78 Past-President, International Union of Pharmacology
*1984	President, International Congress of Pharmacology, London.
*1975-81 Chairman,Tropical Medicine Research Board
*1977-80 Member, Board of Management,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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__Posts Held__		
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*1971-7 Member, Medical Committee, British Council
*1972-78 Member, General Committee, International
*1982-88	Council of Scientific Unions
*1972-76 Member, Steering Committee, European Training Programme in Brain and Behaviour Research
*1972-73 Council, Royal Society
*1980-86 Council, Royal Society
*1980-86 Vice-President, Royal Society
*1981-86 Foreign Secretary, Royal Society
*1982-89 Master of Darwin College, Cambridge
*1985-92 Non-executive Director, Amersham International plc
*1985-90	Member, Executive Committee, European Science Foundation
*1988-1994 President, Academia Europaea
*1990-  Honorary President. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
*1991-	2007 Editor, European Review
*1992- Advisory Editor, Dictionary of National Biography
*1964-68	Member of Government Grants Board, Royal Society
*1965-71	Member of Medical Research Committee, Royal Society
*1965-68	Member of Science Committee, British Heart Foundation
*1967-71	Member Biological Research Board, Medical Research Council
*1969-71	Member,  Medical Research Council
*1973-78 Member,  Medical Research Council
*1957- Corresponding Member German Pharmacological Society
*1959-62  Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry
*1963-1967 Member, Editorial Board, Molecular Pharmacology
*1966-	Member, Editorial Board, International Encyclopaedia of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
*1966-	Member, Editorial Board, Arch.di Scienze Biol.
*1975-81  Member, National Biological Standards Board
*1972-	Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation
*1980-	Member, Board of Governors, Tel Aviv 	University
*1982	Honorary Member of the Association of 	American Physicians
*1982-97  Trustee of the Ciba Foundation
*1982	Member of the Lister Institute for Preventative 	Medicine
*1982-87   Chairman, Advisory Committee on Irradiated and Novel Foods
*1990-93   Member.  Advisory Committee of Vice-	Chancellor, Cambridge University