Prof Mike Spyer's Biography

Prof Mike Spyer's Professional Career

Career

res fell Dept of Physiology Univ of Birmingham Med Sch 1969-72, Royal Soc Euro prog fell Instituto di Fisiologia Umana Pisa 1972-73, sr res fell Department of Physiology Univ of Birmingham Med Sch 1978-80 (res fell 1973-78); Royal Free Hosp Sch of Med (RFHSM): Sophia Jex-Blake prof of physiology Dept of Physiology 1980-, dir British Heart Fndn Neural Control Gp 1985-, chm Basic Med Sciences 1991-94; head Depts of Physiology RFHSM and UCL 1994-99, dir Autonomic Neuroscience Inst RFHSM 1997-; dean Royal Free & UC Med Sch 2001-06 (dean Royal Free Campus 1998-2001), vice-provost (enterprise) UCL 2006- (vice-provost (biomedicine) 2002-07); Crisp lectr Univ of Leeds 1988, Glaxo lectr Dept of Pharmacology Univ of Edinburgh 1993; visiting prof: Univ of Shanghai 1989, Georg-August Univ Göttingen 1990, Northwestern Univ Chicago 1990, Univ Vittoria Brazil 1991; Annual Review Lecture Physiological Soc 1994, Carl Ludwig Lecture American Physiological Society 1998; chm: Physiological/Pharmacological Panel Wellcome Tst 1993-96, Euro Biomedical Research Assoc 1996-; memb Ctee: Animal Procedures Home Office 1990-98, Benevolent Fund Physiological Soc 1993-99; memb Scientific Panel Brain Research Tst 1993-99, hon life memb Centre for Neuroscience UCL 1984, field ed News in Physiological Science 1992-96; Wolfson Univ Award 1989-92; Hon MD Univ of Lisbon 1991; memb: Physiological Soc 1972-, Brain Research Assoc 1973-, Euro Neuroscience Assoc 1976-, Research Defence Soc 1976- (hon sec 1986-89), Int Brain Research Orgn 1980-, Harveian Soc 1983- (hon sec 1987-89), Zoological 1983-96, Clinical Autonomic Soc 1983-, German Physiological Soc 1984-93, Soc for Neuroscience 1986-, American Physiological Soc 1997-; author of numerous pubns in learned jls; Hon FRCP 2002, FMedSci

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