Lawrence Youlten

Lawrence Youlten was an influential figure in the early days of allergy research and its clinical treatment in the UK. He had a particular interest in the treatment of bee and wasp sting allergies through the use of venom immunotherapy as well as the testing and treatment of patients with anaphylaxis related to food allergies.After graduating he was appointed as a lecturer in the Sherrington School of Physiology at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and went on to be a senior lecturer in the physiology department of the London Hospital Medical College, where he was awarded a PhD for his work on vascular permeability. He was subsequently appointed as senior lecturer in the pharmacology department of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the Royal College of Surgeons, where he was involved in the research into physiology and pharmacology of vascular response to inflammation—he did this work under John Vane,…
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