John R. Vane

John Robert Vane (born 29th March 1927)was a British biochemist. His father was the son of immigrants from Russia and his mother came from a Worcestershire farming family. He was educated at King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham and studied Chemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1944. Vane completed a doctorate in pharmacology from Oxford University in 1953.

He held a post at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences of the University of London in the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 18 years. He won a Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1982.