Rand, Michael (1927 - 2002)

Summary

Michael Rand was professor of pharmacology at the University of Melbourne 1965-1991. His research was in autopharmacology, the pharmacological study of the natural constituents of the body which have regulatory roles. In particular he worked on serotonin, the cholinergic-link (also called the Burn-Rand hypothesis), and autonomic neuroeffector transmission. He was an international leader in research on nitregenic transmitters. Rand was tireless in advancing the disciplines of pharmacology, clinical pharmacology and toxicology in Australia and internationally. He served on numerous committees on poisons, evaluation of pesticides and agricultural chemicals, and the acceptance of food additives for Victorian, national and international organisations. With W. C. Bowman he published Textbook of pharmacology (1968, 2nd ed. 1980) which was considered internationally as a major text in the field.

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Chronology

1953 - 1956

Career position - Fellowship in Sydney

1957

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Sydney

1957 - 1958

Career position - Departmental Demonstrator, University of Oxford, UK

1958 - 1959

Career position - Australia and New Zealand Life Insurance Research Fellow, University of Oxford and the University of Sydney

1960 - 1965

Career position - Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of London

1965 - 1991

Career position - Professor of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne

1967

Career position - Founding Member, Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists

1969 - ?

Career position - Chairman, WHO/FAO Expert Committee on Food Additives

1970 - 1976

Career position - Member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Heart Foundation

1970 - 2002

Career position - Member of the Australian Tobacco Research Foundation

1972 - 2002

Career position - Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Toxicology

1973 - 1986

Career position - Editor-in-Chief, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

1974

Career position - President, Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists

1984 - 2002

Career position - Trustee of the International Life Sciences Institute of Australia

1985 - 2002

Career position - Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Autonomic Pharmacology

1987

Career position - President and Chair of the National Organising Committee, 10th International Congress of Pharmacology, Sydney

1987

Career position - President, Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists

1987 - 2002

Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Food Additives and Contaminants

1989 - 1991

Career position - President, Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society

1991 - 1996

Career position - Commissioner of the National Food Authority (part-time)

1991 - 2002

Career position - Adjunct Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, later RMIT University

1991 - 2002

Career position - Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne

1993 - 2002

Career position - Chairman, Smoking and Health Research Foundation

1999 - 2002

Career position - President, Southeast Asian/Western Pacific Federation of Pharmacologists

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Rae, Ian D., 'The Roche Research Institute of Marine Pharmacology, 1974-1981: Searching for Drug Leads', Historical Records of Australian Science, 20 (2) (2009), 209-231 , https://doi.org/10.1071/HR09013. Details
• Rand, M. J., 'Pharmacology down under including toxicological sciences', Trends in Pharmacological Science, 8 (1987), 237-42. Details
• Rand, M. J., 'Adventures in autopharmacology: a biographic view with digressions into other matters', Annual review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 33 (1993), 25-44. Details
• Story, D., 'Obituary: Michael John Rand (1927 - 2002)', Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 29 (9) (2002), 856-8. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Jones, Philip, 'Obituary: Professor Michael Rand, Experimental pharmacologist and toxicologist', The Age (2002). Details

Resources

• 'Rand, Michael (1927-2002)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474850. Details