The Society is saddened to hear of the death of Robert Henderson who died in December 2023 at the age of 66.

Henderson studied at Queen Mary University of London, initially completing a degree in Comparative Physiology before undertaking his PhD in intracellular pH regulation in the liver.

He continued his postdoctoral work at Queen Mary University of London before venturing to the US to further his research on the liver. While working as a Research Associate in Dr Gerhard Giebisch’s laboratory at Yale University, Connecticut he studied membrane ion transport mechanisms in the liver and kidney. He worked on this for four years, before returning to the UK.

He obtained the position of Professor of Macromolecular Pharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He dedicated his time on the use of the atomic force microscope to investigate topics in cell biology. This led him to examine the structure of and interactions between membrane proteins, and the interaction of restriction enzymes and anticancer drugs with DNA.  From 1993, he was a Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK.