Alan Brown, a medical graduate from the University of Edinburgh, qualified with a BSc in Physiology (1961) and MBChB (1964) and joined the Department of Veterinary Physiology at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College. Awarded his PhD in 1968, he progressed to a Readership (1976), then full Professorship (1984). He was Head of Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences for much of the 1990s. He contributed prominently to our understanding of the diversity of sensory mechanisms in the dorsal horn. His research awards included a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship and MRC Research Fellowships. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1984) and of the Institute of Biology (1988), he served as a member of the MRC Neurosciences Grants Committee and held editorial positions on The Journal of Physiology, the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology, the Journal of Neurophysiology, Neuroscience and Brain Research/Brain Research Reviews.

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