Honouring Geoff Burnstock.

Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Alexander V Gourine K Michael Spyer

This article is the authors' contribution to the tribute issue in honour of Geoffrey Burnstock, the founder of this journal and the field of purinergic signalling. We give a brief account of the results of experimental studies which at the beginning received valuable input from Geoff, who both directly and indirectly influenced our research undertaken over the last two decades. Research into the mechanisms controlling breathing identified ATP as the common mediator of the central and peripheral chemosensory transduction.

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The history of the Purine Club: a tribute to Prof. Geoffrey Burnstock.

Purinergic Signal

March 2021

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Milan, Via Balzaretti 9, 20133 and Via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122, Milan, Italy.

Maria P Abbracchio

The international purinergic scientific community has lost its pioneer. Geoffrey Burnstock, born on the 10th of May 1929 in London, died on the 2nd of June 2020, aged 91, in Melbourne (Australia). Geoff was one of the most highly regarded scientists of his generation.

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A wind of change from the west.

BMJ

January 2007

Geoff Watts

Students looking for a new way of learning medicine are heading west—to Peninsula Medical School in southwest England. spoke to its founder, , who was knighted in the New Year's Day honours

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