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Chair: A. Mark Evans

Professor A. Mark Evans has been appointed Chair of Cellular Pharmacology.

Mark Evans

He is Senior Research Fellow at the University’s Centre for Integrative Physiology.

Born and brought up in Hertfordshire, Professor Evans developed an interest in pharmacology when he worked as a research technician at Beecham Pharmaceuticals.

In 1982 he went on to study pharmacology at the University of Sunderland and graduated with a BSc (Honours 1st Class).

Postgraduate studies, under the supervision of Professor B. L. Ginsborg at Edinburgh’s Department of Pharmacology, led to his PhD in 1990.

This marked the beginning of Professor Evans’s investigations into the regulation by ion channels and calcium of cell and organ function.

Postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Professor R. J. Martin at Edinburgh preceded a move to London. There, Professor Evans began to develop his studies on the regulatory effect of oxygen on the blood vessels that feed the lungs.

This led to a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship that allowed Professor Evans to establish an independent research group at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.

Since then, his research work has led to the development of new concepts on the cellular mechanisms that regulate breathing patterns and oxygen delivery to the body.

In 2001 Professor Evans was appointed to a Lectureship at the University of St Andrews and in 2005 he was promoted to Reader.

He has been in post at Edinburgh since 2008.

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