page_title: Department of Pharmacology, University College London
section_title: H.P.Rang FRS
hierarchical_section_title: Department of Pharmacology, University College London / The Department of Pharmacology / H.P.Rang FRS
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context_page_description: The Department of Pharmacology at the University of London, the first of its kind in England, was founded in 1905 and remained in existence until 2007.
context_section_description: Humphrey Rang (born 1936) held the Chair of Pharmacology from 1979 to 1983.
  Rang qualified in medicine at UCL and had worked in H.O.Schild's laboratory while a medical student. He was the author of the first successful ligand-binding experiment of the modern era. This was based on his PhD work in Oxford, under William D.M. Paton. Rang had previously been the Professor of Pharmacology at Southampton and at St. George's Hospital Medical School. He brought with him David Colquhoun who was also returning to the Department, having been appointed in 1964 as an assistant lecturer by H.O. Schild. These appointments greatly strengthened the interests and achievements of the Department in fundamental aspects of pharmacology, particularly the study of ion channels and receptors.
  In collaboration with M. Maureen Dale (also appointed during Schild's Headship), Rang prepared the first edition of Pharmacology, the successor to Wilson & Schild's  Applied Pharmacology.
  In 1983 Rang was offered and accepted the Directorship of the Sandoz Institute of Medical Research, a division of  Sandoz, then an independent pharmaceutical company. The new Institute was located in UCL and developed a close relationship with the Department, both in teaching, to which members of the Institute contributed, and in research.
caption: Humphrey Rang
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