Ramsey Bronk was first Professor of Biochemistry at the University of York. He came as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford in 1952, studying for his doctorate with Fisher and Parsons, and returned to Washington (1956) to work in the National Institutes of Health. He was subsequently appointed Associate Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, becoming full Professor shortly before coming to York (1966) where he remained until his retirement (1997). There, he was closely involved in establishing the successful biochemistry degree course and the cancer research laboratories in the Biology Department, funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research. He wrote two major successful textbooks, Chemical biology and Human metabolism. His research interests included mitochondria, and thyroid hormones, and he worked extensively on metabolic aspects of chemotherapeutic drug delivery by peptide transport across the small intestine. He was a founding member of, and regular contributor to, the European Intestinal Transport Group and Chairman of the European Editorial Committee of Physiological Reviews, as well as a Distributing Editor for The Journal of Physiology.

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