John B. Glen

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John Baird Glen (also Iain Glen ; born October 22, 1940 in Glasgow ) is a British veterinarian.

Glen is from western Scotland. He studied veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow with a bachelor's degree in 1963. He was then a veterinary surgeon at the University of Nairobi and, on his return, lecturer in veterinary surgery at the University of Glasgow. He also became interested in anesthesia and began experimenting with possible anesthetics on animals. In 1968 he received a diploma in veterinary anesthesia. In 1972 he joined ICI Pharmaceuticals (later acquired by AstraZeneca ) as a research biologist and worked with colleagues in the anesthetics department to find a replacement with fewer side effects for the anesthetic thiopental in humans. In 1973 he came across a substance among the substances already synthesized at the company, propofol . It worked as well as thiopental, but did not have the undesirable after-effects (nausea, dizziness, vomiting) in patients. Because they recovered quickly, it was used extensively in operations outside of hospitals. In 1983 he was transferred to the ICI Medical Department to take part in clinical tests. One obstacle was the difficulty in finding an aqueous solution (propofol is highly lipophilic), and finally an emulsion with soybean oil was chosen. 1986 was approved in the UK (as Diprivan ), 1989 in the US and in 2016 by the WHO as " essential medicines " explains.

In 2000 he retired from AstraZeneca and set up a pharmaceutical consultancy (Glen Pharma Limited).

In 2018 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award . In 2000 he became an honorary member of the SIVA (Society for Intravenous Anesthesia). He is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (and was one of their anesthesia examiners from 1974 to 1978 ).

In 1982 he received a Ph.D. at the University of Glasgow (Dissertation: Studies on the pharmacology of injectable anaesthetic agents ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lasker Awards Given for Work in Genetics, Anesthesia and Promoting Women in Science. The New York Times, September 11, 2018, accessed September 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Glen, John B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glen, John Baird; Glen, Iain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow