John Vane
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For the Australian bushranger, see John Vane (bushranger). For the British peer, see John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard.
Sir John Robert Vane FRS (29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004)[1] was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 along with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances".[2]
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Born | John Robert Vane (1927-03-29)29 March 1927 Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England |
Died | 19 November 2004(2004-11-19) (aged 77) Kent, England |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
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Elizabeth Daphne Page
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Fields | Pharmacology |
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Thesis | Blood flow and its relation to secretion in the stomach and smaller intestine (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey S. Dawes |
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