Prof David Smith

Career: Univ of Oxford: Royal Soc Stothert res fell 1966-70, res lectr ChCh 1966-71, Wellcome res fell 1970-71, univ lectr in pharmacology and student of ChCh 1971-84, prof and head Dept of Pharmacology 1984-2005, hon dir MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit 1985-98, fell LMH Oxford 1984-, dir Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA) 1988-, dep head Div of Med Sciences 2000-05; founding chief ed Neuroscience 1976-2001, ed and contrib articles in various jls; memb: Gen Bd of the Faculties Oxford 1980-84, Neurosciences Bd MRC 1983-85; chair Scientific Advsy Bd Alzheimer's Res Tst 1997-2002; Hon Dr Szeged Univ 1993, Hon Dr Med Lund Univ 1998; seventh Gaddum Meml Prize Br Pharmacological Soc 1979, Decade of the Brain lectr 1993, memb Norwegian Acad of Sci and Letters 1996, hon memb Hungarian Acad of Scis 1998, Dana Alliance for the Brain 2000; hon res fell Alzheimer's Res Tst 2006; FMedSci 2000