Professor Arthur Weston FMedSci DSc

Professor Emeritus, The University of Manchester; previously Leech Professor of Pharmacology, Manchester, 1989 - 2011. Hymers College, Hull 1955-62; Manchester BSc (Geigy Prize, 1966); MSc (Wild Prize, 1968); PhD (1970), DSc (1993). Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Marburg 1974-75 and University of Heidelberg, 1985. 1999-2008 BPS Honorary Treasurer; Director and Trustee; Member BPS Council; BPS Executive Committee; Clinical Section Committee; Academic Development Committee; Committee of Heads of Pharmacology; British Journal of Pharmacology Executive Committee; Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Executive Committee; Open-Access Working Party. Chairman Finance Committee, Membership Committee; Bursary Committee; Pharma-CAL-ogy Management Group.2008-2015 Senior Editor British Journal of Pharmacology.Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci; 2001); BPS Fellow, then Honorary Fellow (FBPharmacolS; 2004 : HonFBPhS, 2012); President of EPHAR 2006-2008; Honorary Member Finnish Pharmacological Society 2008. Gaddum Medal 2008; Rodolfo Paoletti Medal 2015. Research Key Words: blood vessels, K+-channel openers, EDHF, Ca2+-sensing receptors, PVAT.