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Professor Paul M Vanhoutte has taken up
the post of Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Department of
Pharmacology from June 2003. Born in Belgium, Professor Vanhoutte
obtained his degrees at the University of Ghent (B.S.,M.S., M.D.)
and the University of Antwerp (equivalent to Ph.D.). He received his
postdoctoral training at the University of Ghent and the Mayo Clinic
(Rochester, MN, USA). His academic career started at the University
of Ghent (Assist, 196901971), followed by the Mayo Clinic (Research
Associate, 1972-1973), the University of Antwerp (Belgium), from
Associate Professor to full Professor and Head of the Department of
Pharmacology, 1973-1981), again the Mayo Clinic (Professor of
Physiology and Pharmacology, 1981-1989) and Baylor College of
Medicine (Houston TX, USA, Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and
Physiology and the Director Center for Experimental Therapeutics,
1989-1995). From 1992 to 2002, Dr. Vanhoutte was Vice-President
R&D, and Director of Discovery Research at the Institut de
Recherches Internationales Servier, in Courbevoie (Paris, France).
During his tenure as Director of Discovery Research at Servier, he
supervised the discovery and preclinical development of drugs
designed for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes,
obesity, central nervous system disorders, cancer an osteoarthritis. |
For details see :
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