[2] Teaching of ‘Chemical Pharmacology’ by chemist James Ernest Marsh FRS was taking place as early as 1890 in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

[5] Smith Jerome delivered an introductory lecture for a public audience in the museum on ‘Pharmacology: its Aims and Methods’ published in The Lancet.

[6] William John Smith Jerome (1839-1929) taught pharmacology for a decade while carrying out research into the formation of uric acid and the development of gout[7][8][9][10] He had previously established the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne,[11]and had been a curator of a pathology museum in Melbourne,[12] a lecturer in Botany in Charing Cross Hospital[13] and carried out research in Germany with papers published in the Plügers Archiv between 1883-1895.

[20] James Andrew Gunn (1882-1958) was appointed Reader in Pharmacology in 1912 to a newly refurbished space for teaching and research in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

[26] Prior to Oxford, Joshua Harold Burn FRS (1892-1981) worked with Sir Henry Hallett Dale and then became director of the Pharmacological Laboratories at the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

In NIMR he discovered with Eleanor Zaimis two different actions of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine; causing muscles to contract, and to increase blood pressure.

He co-founded the Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA)[37] which found mild cognitive impairment can be significantly reduced in over half of cases through treatment with homocysteine-lowering B vitamins in subjects with a good omega-3 fatty acids status.

Squibb & Sons Inc., with a donation of £20 million to create a new larger purpose built building for the department and funding for research into brain diseases.

Following a BA in Natural Science at Trinity College, University of Cambridge from 1989 he worked on the role of calcium oscillations in cell activation in Sir Michael Berridge's laboratory.

[41] After working in UCL on mammalian fertilisation with Michael Whitaker, he went to Johns Hopkins University as a Harkness Fellow studying the role of calcium signals in early development.