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A Tribute to Professor Geoff Burnstock
Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, a great luminary in science and the founder of our field of purinergic signalling, sadly died peacefully in Melbourne, Australia, on the 2nd of June, 2020, at the age of 91. The editors of Purinergic Signalling, the journal that he founded and led for so many years, have created a page on its website dedicated to tributes and memories of Geoff.
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Charles Kennedy
Charles obtained a BSc (Hons) in pharmacology from Aberdeen University, then did a PhD with Geoff Burnstock at UCL, which led to the identification of the P2X and P2Y purinergic receptor subtypes. After post-doc positions in the USA and Cambridge University, he became a lecturer at Strathclyde University, where he is now an honorary reader. He chairs the IUPHAR P2X receptor nomenclature subcommittee and is a member of the P2Y subcommittee. He is also the editor-in-chief of Purinergic Signalling.
