Richard Green (neuropharmacologist)

Professor Richard Green (1944–2020) was a British neuropharmacologist.

Green obtained his PhD in 1969 under the supervision of Gerald Curzon, and then spent two years at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C.[1]

He then obtained a position at the Medical Research Council's clinical pharmacology unit in Oxford, rising to become its assistant unit director in 1981.[1]

He took up the role of director of the Astra Neuroscience Research Unit in 1986. Ten years later he became director of the Global Discovery CNS & Pain Control, for Astra.[1]

Upon formal retirement in 2007 he undertook psychopharmacology research as honorary professor of neuropharmacology at the University of Nottingham.[1]

He was given his DSc by London University in 1988 and the British Association for Psychopharmacology's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.[1]

He was a president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society, and was elected an Honorary Fellow by them in 2013, and was a former president of the Serotonin Club.[1][2]