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John Vane Quotes

English - Scientist | March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

Today Knowledge Tomorrow Research

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

Attitude Path Ideas Find Sometimes

We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Age School King High School High

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

Life Passion Age Parents Me My Life

At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!

Mother Blue Green Kitchen End Dirty

After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

Medical Research Back Study Order

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

My Own Own Field Physiology Amongst

Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.

Muscle High Demand Smooth Most Uses

Plainly, when perfusate from an organ or blood from an animal is used for superfusion, substances can reach the assay tissues within a few seconds of generation or release.

Animal Generation Reach Blood Within

Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.

Content Release Cells Low Tissue

Fundamental discoveries can and should be made in industry or academies, but to carry that knowledge forward and to develop a new drug to the market has to depend on the resources of industry.

Knowledge Forward New Depend Carry

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Research University Found Application

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