John Vane
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1927 – 2004
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Who was John Vane?
Sir John Robert Vane FRS was an English 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 K. Bergström and Bengt I. Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances".
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- Born
- Mar 29, 1927
Tardebigge - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- St Catherine's College, Oxford
- University of Birmingham
- University of Oxford
- Died
- Nov 19, 2004
London Borough of Bromley
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on July 23, 2013
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