Y S Bakhle

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Yeshwant S. Bakhle
Born1936 (age 87–88)
NationalityBritish
Occupation Pharmacologist
Employer Imperial College London

Yeshwant S. Bakhle (born 1936), is a British pharmacologist.

Bakhle studied chemistry, with supplementary chemical pharmacology, in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, later obtaining both a DPhil and, in 1993, a DSc there. [1]

He spent two years at Yale University as a Fulbright Fellow, then in 1965 obtained a position at the Royal College of Surgeons' Department of Pharmacology under John Vane. [1] [2] He was appointed reader in biochemical pharmacology there in 1980. [1]

Later in his career, he moved to the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, as a senior research fellow, a position which became honorary upon his retirement. [1] [3]

He served as a senior editor at the British Journal of Pharmacology from 2001 to 2006, and was subsequently press editor there. [1]

He became an Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society in 2002. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Caroline Overy; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2013). Drugs Affecting 5-HT Systems. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN   978-0-902238-87-9. Wikidata   Q29581800.
  2. 1 2 "Dr Y.S. (Mick) Bakhle MA DPhil DSc". British Pharmacological Society - Honorary Fellows Directory. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  3. ↑ "A-Z our people". Imperial College London . Retrieved 3 August 2017.


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