Flynn, Victor (1920 - 2006)

Summary

Victor Flynn was a highly regarded research physician specialising in human metabolism and heart disease. Flynn was educated in Melbourne and while a research fellow at the Melbourne University Department of Physiology, established a blood analysis unit which was the fore-runner of the Howard Florey Institute. In 1950 he received a Nuffield Research Scholarship which took him to St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London where he remained until 1986. In 1969 he was made Britain's first ever professor of Human Metabolism. He was a pioneer in research into the adverse effects of anabolic steroids and oral contraceptive, and strongly believed in the importance of informing patients of the dangers. During his time at St Mary's Flynn established the Heart Disease and Diabetes Research Trust and the Atherosclerosis Research Trust. Throughout his career and after his retirement he personally contributed many millions of dollars to these and other medical research funds.

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Chronology

1938 - 1944

Education - Bachelor of Medicine, University of Melbourne

1944 - 1948

Career position - Medical Officer with the Australian Army, Darwin

1948 - 1950

Career position - Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Department of Physiology

1950

Award - Awarded a Nuffield Research Scholarship, St Mary's Hospital medical school, London

1955

Award - Re-awarded a Nuffield Research Scholarship, St Mary's Hospital medical School, London

1965 - 1969

Career position - Director of the Alexander Simpson Laboratory for Medical Research, London

1969 - 1986

Career position - Professor of Human Metabolism, St Mary's Hospital medical school, London

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

• Rigg, J., 'Top physician a real 'corker' in funding research', The Age (2007). Details

Resources

• 'Flynn, Victor (19201012-20061006)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514403. Details