Sussan Nourshargh


Sussan Nourshargh is a British immunologist, pharmacologist, and professor of microvascular pharmacology and immunopharmacology. She founded the Centre for Microvascular research at Queen Mary University.

Career

Sussan Nourshargh studied pharmacology at University College London and did her PhD at King's College London.
Nourshargh held a post-doctoral research scientist post in vascular biology at MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London between 1986-1988. In 1988 she became a senior lecturer within the department of Applied Pharmacology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, part of Imperial College London.
In 2006, Nourshargh became a professor of immunopharmacology at Imperial College London, a year later she founded the Centre for Microvascular Research within the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University.

Awards

  • 2016: The Gabor Kaley Prize in Microcirculation Research from the American Societies of Physiology and Microcirculation.
  • 2014: The Astra Zeneca Prize for Women in Pharmacology from the British Pharmacology Society.
  • 2001: Quintiles Prize for outstanding contribution to Immunopharmacology from the British Pharmacology Society.

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