page_title: John Vane
section_title: University of London
hierarchical_section_title: John Vane / Career and research / University of London
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Sir John Vane (left) and Dr Salvador Moncada in a laboratory, with chemical apparatus in the background. Picture probably taken in the Wellcome Laboratories at Beckenham, Kent.
context_page_description: Sir John Robert Vane FRS was a British 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 Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances".
context_section_description: Vane held a post at the University of London for 18 years, progressing from senior lecturer to Professor of Experimental Pharmacology in 1966 (at the Royal College of Surgeons).  During that time he developed certain bioassay techniques and focussed his research on both angiotensin-converting enzyme and the actions of aspirin, eventually leading to the publication with Priscilla Piper of the relationship between aspirin and the prostaglandins that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982.
caption: John Vane and Salvador Moncada in the 1960s
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