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Professor Nicholas J Severs
Honorary Professorial Research Fellow
National Heart & Lung Institute
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Professor Nicholas J Severs
Nicholas Severs has been a Professor of Cell Biology at the National Heart and Lung Institute (Imperial College London) since 1995. After obtaining his BSc and PhD degrees (University of London), he was appointed Lecturer in the Cell Pathology Unit, Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1976. He moved to the Cardiothoracic Institute (predecessor of the National Heart and Lung Institute) in 1979 and received the D.Sc. degree (University of London) in 1994.
Professor Severs’ research interests span a series of interrelated themes in biomedical cell biology including the functional morphology of membranes, cell-cell interactions and intercellular junctions in health and disease, fields in which he has published over 260 journal articles, reviews and books. His work on gap junction remodelling and arrhythmia in human heart disease led to the award of the Robert Feulgen Prize 1992.
Professor Severs has served on the editorial boards of seven international journals and on a range of international scientific advisory, evaluation, conference and grant committees. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 1997, was ASB Bank Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) in 2006, and was elected Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts & Sciences (Polska Akademia Umiejetności) in 1995 and of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polskiej Akademii Nauk) in 2000.
