Margaret Gladden was a medical graduate from London University (1965), gaining her MRCS, LRCP, and DCh shortly after. She took up an MRC junior research fellowship in Geoffrey Kidd’s Liverpool laboratory, was awarded her PhD (1971) and published her first papers on the relationship between structure and function in the innervation of skeletal muscle. She later moved to Glasgow, joining Ian Boyd’s laboratory in the then Institute of Physiology as a research fellow and successively as lecturer (1973), senior lecturer (1983) and reader (1991). She published over 70 papers, mostly in The Journal of Physiology and almost entirely on the subject of muscle spindles.

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