Awards & Winners

John Vane

Date of Birth 29-March-1927
Place of Birth Tardebigge
(United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom
Sir John Robert Vane FRS was an English pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 along with Sune K. Bergström and Bengt I. Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances".

Awards by John Vane

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1982


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances.)

1977


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For his discovery of prostacyclin, whose major action is to prevent the formation of the kind of blood clots that may lead to heart attack and stroke.)