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Regius Chair of Physiology appointed
20/08/2002
HM The Queen has appointed Professor Colin Darnley
McCaig to the Regius Chair of Physiology in the University
of Aberdeen.
Professor McCaig (48) is currently the Head of
Department, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of
Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, a post he
has held since 1998. He received his First Class BSc
Honours (Physiology) as an Undergraduate at the University
of Edinburgh in 1975 and then went on to receive his PhD in
Physiology in 1980 at the University of Glasgow. He has won
several awards including a Beit Memorial Fellowship, a
Wellcome Trust University Award Lectureship in 1988 and in
2000 he jointly won the Yasuda Prize for Excellence in
Biomedical Research awarded by The American Society for
Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine. He is a member
of 7 Professional Societies including the British Society
for Developmental Biology, the American Society for Cell
Biology and the Society for Neuroscience.
Professor McCaig's research interests are in tissue
development and regeneration, in particular with regard to
the nervous system, the vascular system and the eye.
He has had many papers published in his field, with 48
papers in Refereed Journals since 1980 and currently has 10
in either preparation or already submitted. He has over 70
published Abstracts mostly in communications to the
Physiological Society, the Society for Neuroscience and the
American Society for Cell Biology. He has given numerous
international presentations since 1979 including the
American Society of Cell Biology, Toronto and Society for
Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine, Miami. He has
also held many internal and external examining
responsibilities.
Professor McCaig is married and has 3 children.
He took up the post on 2nd August 2002.