Background
McGregor, Ian Alexander was born on August 26, 1922 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Son of John and Isabella (Taylor) McGregor.
McGregor, Ian Alexander was born on August 26, 1922 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Son of John and Isabella (Taylor) McGregor.
Graduate in medicine, St. Mungo College, Glasgow, Scotland, 1945. Diploma in Tropical Medicine&H, London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1949. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Aberdeen (Scotland) University, 1983.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Glasgow University, 1984.
Member science staff human nutrition research unit, Medical Research Council, London, 1949-1953;
member malaria committee, Medical Research Council, London, 1962-1971;
head laboratory tropical community studies, member tropical medicine research board, Medical Research Council, London, 1974-1977;
director laboratories, Medical Research Council, The Gambia, 1954-1974, 78-80;
member external staff, Medical Research Council, Liverpool (England) School Tropical Medicine, 1981-1984;
visiting professor, Liverpool (England) School Tropical Medicine, since 1981. Heath Clark lecturer London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1983-1984, member court Governors, since 1987. Lord Cohen lecturer medicine history U. Liverpool, 1989.
Member of advisory panel on malaria World Health Organization, since 1961, steering commission on immunology of malaria, 1978-1989, steering commission on applied field research malaria, 1984-1990, chairman expert commission on malaria, 1985-1989. Member commission on nutrition surveys International Union Nutrition Sciences 1971-1975. Member malaria vaccine, epidemiology and evaluation science consultant group Agency International Development, since 1988.
Captain Royal Army Medical Corps, 1946-1948. Fellow Royal College Physicians (diplomate), Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (vice president 1981-1983, president 1983-1985, Chalmers medal 1963), Royal Society London (council member 1985-1987, chairman science in developing countries committee and medical research science committee since 1988, member international exchanges committee since 1989), Royal Society Edinburgh (Scotland). Member Royal Society Medicine, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (honorary.
Fred Soper lecturer 1983), British Society for Parasitology (honorary).
Married Nancy Joan Small, January 30, 1954. Children: Ian Alistair, Lesley Joan.