Palmer Taylor

Dr. Taylor has studied ligand-enzyme interactions at the molecular level, since his post-doctoral studies with Sir Arnold Burgen at the University of Cambridge in England and the late Manfred Eigen in Gottingen, FDR. Dr. Taylor has held a faculty position at UC San Diego in the School of Medicine since 1971. He has served as Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, since its founding in1987. More recently, he became Founding Dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences from 2002 until 2016. Through both research and teaching to medical, pharmacy and graduate students, he is intimately familiar with pharmacology, pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical chemistry. His first independent publication was on acetylcholinesterase in 1974, and he has carried a research program in cholinergic neurotransmission (nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and cholinesterases) since then. He lists over 450 publications and has edited and written major textbook chapters: Goodman & Gilman’s Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics and Pratt and Taylor’s Principals of Drug Action. Dr. Taylor was awarded France’s Legion of Honor for his commitment to international research collaborations.