Tom Blackburn FBPharmacolS, FRSB (born 1949) is a British industrial

pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemic ...

. Blackburn studied at both the

University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...

and

Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

, and worked as a senior manager at ICI Pharmaceuticals, Beecham Pharmaceuticals

SmithKline Beecham GSK plc, formerly GlaxoSmithKline plc, is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with global headquarters in London, England. Established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. GSK is the tent ...

, Synaptic Pharmaceutical Corporation and Helicon Therapeutics. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers, reviews and book chapters and holds over 20 patents. He is President Emeritus of the

British Pharmacological Society The British Pharmacological Society is the primary UK learned society for pharmacologists concerned with research into drugs and the way they work. Members work in academia, industry, regulatory agencies and the health services, and many are medi ...

and is a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society (Hon FBPharmacolS) in 2014 and is a

Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), previously Fellowship of the Society of Biology (FSB), is an award and fellowship granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Biology has adjudged to have made a "prominent contribution to ...

(FRSB).

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Tilli Tansey Elizabeth Matilda Tansey (known as Tilli) is an Emerita Professor of the history of medicine and former neurochemist, best known for her role in the Wellcome Trust's witness seminars. She previously worked at Queen Mary University of London (Q ...

, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 22 February 2016 (seven parts) 1949 births Place of birth missing (living people) Living people British pharmacologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology Honorary Fellows of the British Pharmacological Society Alumni of the University of Nottingham {{med-bio-stub