Sheild Professor of Pharmacology

Not to be confused with the Schild Professor of Pharmacology professorship, at University College London.

The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology is the senior professorship in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. It is named in honour of Marmaduke Sheild.^[1]

The position was originally established on 7 June 1946 as a personal chair for the tenure of Ernest Basil Verney. On 11 March 1961 the professorship was re-established on a permanent basis.^[2]

List of Sheild Professors of Pharmacology

• 1946–1962 Ernest Basil Verney
• 1962–1971 Arnold Burgen
• 1973–1978 Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
• 1979–1999 Alan Cuthbert
• 1999–2013 Peter Anthony McNaughton
• 2017–2022 John Michael Edwardson
• 2022–present Mark Howarth