Gerald Alan Young

Background

Young, Gerald Alan was born on July 30, 1936 in Rochford, Essex, England. Son of Stanley George and Marjorie Violet (Fielding) Young.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, U. Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1972.

Career

Medical laboratory scientist, Public Health Laboratory Svc., Southend Essex, 1953-1960; chief renal research unit, Leeds General Infirmary, 1960-1963; senior biochemist, Leeds General Infirmary, 1968-1972; principal biochemist, Leeds General Infirmary, 1972-1974; science director, Leeds General Infirmary, 1976-1997; consultant clinical scientist, Leeds General Infirmary, 1991-1997. Chairman nephrology International Congress of Amino Acids, Vienna, 1990-1993. Mem, international groups on nutrition in renal failure, Milan, Brussels, Chicago, Florida, 1987-1995.

Achievements

• Gerald Alan Young has been listed as a notable research scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal Society Chemists. Member European Dialysis and Transplant Association, International Society Nutrition and Metabolism in Renal Disease (member committee 1991, chairman nutrition 1991), Renal Association (Cilag prize 1995), Assn.Clin. Biochemists.

Interests

• Avocations: playing orchestral music/violin, theatre, art, walking.

Connections

Married Sheila Maureen Whibley, July 11, 1959. Children: Kathryn Anne, Susan Jayne.

Father:

Stanley George Young

Mother:

Marjorie Violet (Fielding) Young

Spouse:

Sheila Maureen Whibley

child:

Kathryn Anne Young

child:

Susan Jayne Young