26 episodes

Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London presents a series of podcasts on the history of neuroscience featuring eminent people in the field: Professor Burnstock returned to London in 1975, becoming Head of Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London and Convenor of the Centre of Neuroscience. He has served as editor-in-chief of the journals Autonomic Neuroscience and Purinergic Signalling and has been on the editorial boards of many other journals. He has been elected to the Australian Academy of Science (1971, the Royal Society (1986) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (1998), and was awarded the Royal Society Gold Medal (2000). He was President (1995-2000) of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN), and was first in the Institute of Scientific Information list (1994-2004) of most cited scientists in Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Professor Geoffrey Burnstock Professor Geoffrey Burnstock

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Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London presents a series of podcasts on the history of neuroscience featuring eminent people in the field: Professor Burnstock returned to London in 1975, becoming Head of Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London and Convenor of the Centre of Neuroscience. He has served as editor-in-chief of the journals Autonomic Neuroscience and Purinergic Signalling and has been on the editorial boards of many other journals. He has been elected to the Australian Academy of Science (1971, the Royal Society (1986) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (1998), and was awarded the Royal Society Gold Medal (2000). He was President (1995-2000) of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN), and was first in the Institute of Scientific Information list (1994-2004) of most cited scientists in Pharmacology and Toxicology.

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    ATP and evolution

    ATP and evolution

    Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Geoffrey Burnstock

    • 3 min
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    Adenosine receptors prove therapeutically disappointing

    Adenosine receptors prove therapeutically disappointing

    Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Geoffrey Burnstock

    • 2 min
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    Breakthrough in purinergic signalling concept, 1985

    Breakthrough in purinergic signalling concept, 1985

    Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Geoffrey Burnstock

    • 1 min
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    Co-transmission in sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves

    Co-transmission in sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves

    Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Geoff rey Burnstock

    • 2 min
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    Co-transmission in the NANC nerves

    Co-transmission in the NANC nerves

    Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Geoffrey Burnstock

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    Developing the sucrose gap technique for smooth muscle

    Developing the sucrose gap technique for smooth muscle

    Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Geoffrey Burnstock

    • 2 min

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