Background
He was born on 27 February 1935 and educated at New Mills Grammar School and the University of Nottingham (where he earned his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy).
He was born on 27 February 1935 and educated at New Mills Grammar School and the University of Nottingham (where he earned his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy).
He also has an Master of Arts and a Doctor of Science from Cambridge and Honorary DScs from Nottingham (1994), York (2001) and Street Andrews (2007).
1960 University Demonstrator, Cambridge,
1963 Lalor Reserve Fellow, American Red Cross Babraham, Cambridge
1964-1995 Staff Member, AFRC Babraham, serving as Head, Department of Physiology, 1976. Head of Cambridge Research Station, 1986.
Director Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge and Edinburgh, 1989-1993.
Director of Science, AFRC, 1991-1994 and Director AFRC Babraham Institute, 1993-1994. 1994-2001 Visiting Senior Fellow, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
He was the Master of Street Edmund"s College, University of Cambridge from 1996 until 2004 and has been a Special Professor in Animal Physiology at the University of Nottingham since 1988.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, and held the post of Royal Society Vice President and Foreign Secretary from 1996 to 2001. On 8 October 2007, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh opened three new buildings at Street Edmund"s College, Cambridge, one of which was named the "Brian Heap Building".
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Brian Heap was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 1996-2001.