Professor Michael Spedding
Elected Trustee (Industry) 2024-2026
Michael SPEDDING, PhD, FBPhS, Secretary General, IUPHAR and President of Spedding Research Solutions (Paris). Joined BPS 1976; secretary/chair NC-IUPHAR from 1990-2015, now 90 subcommittees of 700 scientists (IUPHAR/BPS guidetopharmacology.org). Interests: drug discovery and development (11 compounds into Phase I, one to market; 3 ‘assists’); brain circuits in cognition, stress and psychiatry. Research programs for ALS, glioma, and neuroinflammation via collaborations. Michael obtained his BSC, PhD and lectured at Sunderland, eight years at Merrell Dow research in Strasbourg (calcium channels), then Director of Pharmacology at Syntex, Edinburgh. He set up Servier’s new CNS centre (Paris, and a Budapest centre for medchem). >200 publications, >30 patents, Thomson-Reuter’s 3000 influential scientists, h-index: 58. Michael has been a competitive athlete for 54 years (>110,000 kms run) and is interested in how evolution and the trophic/inflammatory interface modulates such activity. To conteract age-related slowing, he also does entry-level car racing (club Lotus).