title: Sussan Nourshargh
text: # Sussan Nourshargh
  
  Sussan Nourshargh is a British immunologist, pharmacologist, and professor of microvascular pharmacology and immunopharmacology. She founded the Centre for Microvascular research at Queen Mary University.
  
  ## Career
  
  Sussan Nourshargh studied pharmacology (BSc) at University College London and did her PhD at King's College London.
  
  Nourshargh held a post-doctoral research scientist post in vascular biology at MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London between 1986-1988. In 1988 she became a senior lecturer within the department of Applied Pharmacology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, part of Imperial College London.
  
  In 2006 Nourshargh became a professor of immunopharmacology at Imperial College London, a year later she founded the Centre for Microvascular Research within the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2016: The Gabor Kaley Prize in Microcirculation Research from the American Societies of Physiology and Microcirculation.
  * 2014: The Astra Zeneca Prize for Women in Pharmacology from the British Pharmacology Society.
  * 2001: Quintiles Prize for outstanding contribution to Immunopharmacology from the British Pharmacology Society.
  
  ## Fellowships
  
  * 2012: Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award.
  * 2012: Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
  * 2010: Fellow of the Society of Biology.
  * 2005: Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society.
  * 1996: Wellcome Trust University Award.
  * 1990: Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship.
  
  ## Memberships
  
  * 2015 - current: British Heart Foundation Board of Trustees and Advisory Council
  * 2015-2018: Wellcome Trust’s Biomedical Resources & Multi-User Equipment Committee
  * 2015-2017: Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Panel
  * 2012-2017: Chair and Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences Committee (SC3) for selection of new fellows
  * 2014-2016: Royal Society’s Newton Advanced Fellowship Panel
  * 2011-2014: British Heart Foundation Fellowship Committee
  * 2012-2016: Wellcome Trust’s Peer Review College
  * 2007-2016: Treasurer of the UK Adhesion Society
  * 2013 - current: Editor, European Journal of Immunology
  * 2010-2013: Editor, British Journal of Pharmacology
  