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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1983 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1982 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances
  • 1977 - Baly Medal, Royal College of Physicians of London
  • 1977 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation

Overview

John R. Vane was affiliated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in the United Kingdom during their career. Their work focused on biochemical and medical research, notably in the area of prostaglandins and related biologically active substances.

Throughout their scientific career, John R. Vane received several significant recognitions. In 1982, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances. In addition, Vane was honored with the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research from the Lasker Foundation in 1977 and the Baly Medal from the Royal College of Physicians of London in the same year.

They were also a member of prestigious scientific institutions, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs

    J. R. Vane

  • An enzyme isolated from arteries transforms prostaglandin endoperoxides to an unstable substance that inhibits platelet aggregation.

    S. Moncada;R. Gryglewski;S. Bunting;J. R. Vane

  • CYCLOOXYGENASES 1 AND 2

    J. R. Vane;Y. S. Bakhle;R. M. Botting

  • Regulatory functions of the vascular endothelium.

    John R. Vane;Erik E. Änggård;Regina M. Botting

  • EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID AND PREVENTION OF THROMBOSIS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS

    J. Dyerberg;H.O. Bang;E. Stoffersen;S. Moncada

  • Selectivity of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs as inhibitors of constitutive and inducible cyclooxygenase

    Jane A. Mitchell;Pravit Akarasereenont;Christoph Thiemermann;Roderick J. Flower

  • Nonsteroid drug selectivities for cyclo-oxygenase-1 rather than cyclo-oxygenase-2 are associated with human gastrointestinal toxicity: A full in vitro analysis

    Timothy D. Warner;Francesco Giuliano;Ivana Vojnovic;Antoaneta Bukasa

  • Pressor effects of circulating endothelin are limited by its removal in the pulmonary circulation and by the release of prostacyclin and endothelium-derived relaxing factor.

    G de Nucci;R Thomas;P D'Orleans-Juste;E Antunes

  • Arterial walls are protected against deposition of platelet thrombi by a substance (prostaglandin X) which they make from prostaglandin endoperoxides

    Ryszard J. Gryglewski;Stuart Bunting;Salvador Moncada;Roderick J. Flower

  • The mechanism of action of aspirin.

    J.R Vane;R.M Botting

  • Arterial walls generate from prostaglandin endoperoxides a substance (prostaglandin X) which relaxes strips of mesenteric and coeliac ateries and inhibits platelet aggregation.

    Stuart Bunting;Salvador Moncada;John R. Vane;Richard Gryglewski

  • Inducible isoforms of cyclooxygenase and nitric-oxide synthase in inflammation

    John R. Vane;Jane A. Mitchell;Ian Appleton;Annette Tomlinson

  • Indomethacin and aspirin abolish prostaglandin release from the spleen.

    S. H. Ferreira;S. Moncada;J. R. Vane

  • HUMAN ARTERIAL AND VENOUS TISSUES GENERATE PROSTACYCLIN (PROSTAGLANDIN X), A POTENT INHIBITOR OF PLATELET AGGREGATION

    S. Moncada;E.A. Higgs;J.R. Vane

  • Prostaglandins: Their Disappearance from and Release into the Circulation

    S. H. Ferreira;J. R. Vane

  • Release of Additional Factors in Anaphylaxis and its Antagonism by Anti-inflammatory Drugs

    Priscilla J. Piper;J. R. Vane

  • New insights into the mode of action of anti-inflammatory drugs

    J. R. Vane;R. M. Botting

  • Inhibition of prostaglandin synthetase in brain explains the anti-pyretic activity of paracetamol (4-acetamidophenol).

    R. J. Flower;J. R. Vane

  • Towards a better aspirin

    John Vane

  • Anti-inflammatory drugs and their mechanism of action

    J. R. Vane;R. M. Botting

Frequent Co-Authors

Salvador Moncada
Salvador Moncada University of Manchester
Christoph Thiemermann
Christoph Thiemermann Queen Mary University of London
Timothy D. Warner
Timothy D. Warner Queen Mary University of London
Jane A. Mitchell
Jane A. Mitchell National Institutes of Health
Daniela Salvemini
Daniela Salvemini Saint Louis University
Roderick J. Flower
Roderick J. Flower Queen Mary University of London
Brendan J.R. Whittle
Brendan J.R. Whittle Queen Mary University of London
William C. Sessa
William C. Sessa Pfizer (United States)
Frans P. Nijkamp
Frans P. Nijkamp Utrecht University
Csaba Szabó
Csaba Szabó University of Fribourg

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