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Prof. Alan Harvey

Toxinomics Foundation Advisory Board

Glasgow
UK

E-mail: alan.harvey@toxinomics.org

Alan Harvey’s first degree was in pharmacy, and he then specialised in pharmacology. He has been on staff for 30 years at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he founded the Strathclyde Institute for Drug Research. This centre facilitates interactions between academic scientists and pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies. From this background, Dr Harvey also founded a spin-out company, Drug Discovery Ltd, which uses natural products to find lead compounds for novel therapeutics.

Alan Harvey has a background in neuropharmacology and current interests in the use of natural products for drug discovery. He discovered the potassium channel-blocking dendrotoxins from mamba snake venoms in 1980, and these toxins are widely used as tools in ion channel research. In 2000, he was presented with the Redi Award of the International Society on Toxinology in recognition of his contributions to venom and toxin research. Previously, he received the Sandoz Prize of the British Pharmacological Society and the British Pharmaceutical Society’s Conference Science Award. He is Editor-in-Chief of Toxicon.