The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology is the senior professorship in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge.
It is named in honour of Marmaduke Sheild.
[1] The position was originally established on 7 June 1946 as a personal chair for the tenure of Ernest Basil Verney.
On 11 March 1961 the professorship was re-established on a permanent basis.
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