John Spence Gillespie, a medical graduate of Glasgow University, was later founding Head of the Department of Pharmacology there (1968-88), Professor of Pharmacology (1968-92) and Vice-Principal (1983-91). He served as Chairman of MRC Grants Committees, on the Committees of both the British Pharmacological Society (BPS) and The Physiological Society and, as BPS representative, on the Editorial Board of Pharmacological Reviews and on the Editorial Board for Monographs of The Physiological Society. He was Honorary Secretary of The Physiological Society from 1966 to 1972 and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His principal research interest was neurotransmission in the peripheral autonomic nervous system.

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