Biochemistry at University College, London Prof. F. G. Young

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PROF. F. G. YOUNG is relinquishing his chair at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School to succeed Sir Jack Drummond as professor of biochemistry at University College, London. In so doing, Prof. Young will be renewing a long association with University College, of which he was an undergraduate in the honours school of chemistry; for, in addition to receiving his early training there, he was successively (1929–32) Bayliss-Starling Scholar in biochemistry, Sharpey Scholar and Shafer Prizeman in physiology. After holding Beit Memorial fellowships for medical research, Prof. Young then gained further experience by serving as honorary research assistant in the Department of Physiology, Aberdeen, and research associate, Department of Physiology, Toronto, returning to University College in 1934 as honorary assistant in the Department of Biochemistry. Two years later he joined the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council, on which he stayed until his appointment to the chair at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1942.