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Nature 433, 28 (6 January 2005) | doi:10.1038/433028a; Published online 5 January 2005

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Obituary:  John R. Vane (1927–2004)

Salvador Moncada1

Sir John Robert Vane, who died on 19 November 2004, was one of the most distinguished British pharmacologists of all time. His greatest scientific achievement was the invention of the blood-bathed superfusion bioassay technique and its application to a number of seminal discoveries.

  1. Salvador Moncada is at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
    e-mail: Email: s.moncada@ucl.ac.uk

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