Leslie Iversen

CBE FRS MAE
Born
Leslie Lars Iversen

(1937-10-31)31 October 1937
Exeter, England
Died30 July 2020(2020-07-30) (aged 82)
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
SpouseSusan Iversen (1961)
AwardsFerrier Lecture
Scientific career
FieldsPharmacology
Institutions

Leslie Lars Iversen CBE FRS MAE (31 October 1937 – 30 July 2020), was a British pharmacologist, known for his work on the neurochemistry of neurotransmission.[1]

Career and research

From 1971 to 1982, Iversen was Director of the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge. Between 1982 and 1995 he worked as Director of the Merck, Sharp & Dohme Neuroscience Research Centre. In 1995 he became Visiting Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford.[2]

In 2000, Iversen published the book The Science of Marijuana by Oxford University Press, Inc.[3] In 2010 he was accused of plagiarism. Consequently one of his books now credits the original author of the plagiarized work.[4]

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980[5][6] and gave the Society's Ferrier Lecture in 1983.[7] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours, "for services to pharmacology".[8]

He died on 30 July 2020, survived by his wife of over 60 years, Susan Iversen.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Leslie Iversen on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
  2. ↑ Tilli Tansey; Pippa Catterall; Sonia V Willhoft; Daphne Christie; Lois Reynolds, eds. (1997). Technology Transfer in Britain: The Case of Monoclonal Antibodies; Self and Non-Self: A History of Autoimmunity; Endogenous Opiates; The Committee on Safety of Drugs. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-1-869835-79-8. OL 9320034M. Wikidata Q29581528.
  3. ↑ The science of marijuana, LL Iversen. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Plagiarism by British Drug Tsar". 11 November 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Robbins, Trevor W. (2023). "Leslie Lars Iversen. 31 October 1937—30 July 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 75. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2023.0008. S2CID 258312871.
  6. ↑ "Leslie Iversen". Royal Society.
  7. ↑ "Ferrier Medal and Lecture". Royal Society.
  8. ↑ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 28 December 2012. p. 8.
  9. ↑ "In Memory of Leslie Iversen". British Neuroscience Association. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.



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