Background
Calvert, Alan Hilary was born on February 18, 1947 in Irby, Cheshire, England. Son of Norman Geoffrey and Mary Christine (Whitehead) Calvert.
Calvert, Alan Hilary was born on February 18, 1947 in Irby, Cheshire, England. Son of Norman Geoffrey and Mary Christine (Whitehead) Calvert.
Bachelor, Cambridge U., England, 1969; Bachelor of Medicine, BChir., Cambridge U., England, 1972; Master of Science in Biochemisty, U. London, 1977; Doctor of Medicine, Cambridge U., 1981.
House physician, St. Charles Hospital, London, 1972-1973;
house surgeon, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, 1973;
senior house officer, renal unit, Royal Free Hospital, London, 1973-1974;
senior house officer, medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, 1974;
locum registrar, renal unit, Royal Free Hospital, London, 1974;
research fellow, Royal Marsden Hospital, 1975-1977;
lecturer clinical pharmacology, Institute Cancer Research, Royal Marsden Hospital, 1980-1985;
reader in clinical pharmacology, Institute Cancer Research, U. London, 1985-1989;
professor clinical oncology, director Cancer Research Unit, U. Newcastle Upon Tyne, since 1989. Industrial consultant Johnson Matthey Research United Kingdom, ICI Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers. Committee member Cancer Research Campaign Phases I and II Clinical Trials (England), chairman phase II.
Science committee Leukemia Research. Chairman science committee "York Against Cancer".
Fellow Royal College Physicians. Member Royal College Physicians, British Association for Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research, Association of Cancer Physicians, American Society of Clinical Oncology, European Society of Medical Oncology, New York Academy Sciences.
Married Drusilla Elizabeth Dean, November 22, 1969. Children: Jane, Catherine, Penelope.