Professor Gustav Born

is Director of the William Harvey Research Institute, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, as well as, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at the University of London. His previous appointments include Vandervell Professor of Pharmacology, Royal College of Surgeons of England and University of London; Honorary Director, Thrombosis Research Group, Medical Research Council; Sheild Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and Professor of Pharmacology, Kings College, University of London. Member of the Royal Society since 1972 and recipient of the Royal Medal in 1987, he is also Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Honorary Fellow, St. Peter's College, Oxford; Fellow, King's College, London; Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Bordeaux, University of Paris Loyola University Chicago; Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Munster, University of Leuven, University of Edinburgh, Brown University, University of Munchen; Honorary Member, Society for Advances in Internal Medicine; Member, Akademie Leopoldina; Honorary Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences; Corresponding Member, Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, German Pharmacological and Physiological Societies, Societe de Biologie; President, International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis; Foundation President, British Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis; Member and/or Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Boards of many leading pharmaceutical companies (Merck, Bayer, ICI, Reckitt and Colman) and Honorary Member of the Club of Rome. In addition, Professor Born has been awarded the Paul Morawitz Prize, the Robert Pfleger Prize, the Alexander von Humboldt Award and the Chevalier de l'Ordre National Decoration of Merit.