Jamie Yancey Jeremy

Background

Jamie Yancey Jeremy was born on January 22, 1950, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, to James William Jeremy and Marjorie Una Clark Jeremy. Cardiff was the industrial and administrative center of South Wales and a major port city during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

He later developed a professional identity associated with British medical education and cardiovascular research. His documented career connected Welsh and English hospitals with academic and research appointments in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Education

Jeremy completed a Higher National Diploma at Brighton Technology College in 1971. The college belonged to the British further-education tradition that provided technical and vocational preparation during a period when scientific and technological qualifications were expanding beyond traditional universities.

In 1974 he obtained a Licentiate of the Institute of Biology at Oxford Polytechnic. Oxford Polytechnic was a major postwar institution for applied higher education and later became Oxford Brookes University. He subsequently received a Master of Science from the University of Oxford in 1977; Oxford's long-established collegiate research tradition provided the setting for advanced study in the biomedical sciences.

Jeremy completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of London in 1993. His doctoral thesis was undertaken through the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine and examined vascular and platelet eicosanoids in cardiovascular disease. The University of London was a federal university whose constituent colleges and medical schools supported advanced research across the biomedical disciplines.

Career

Jeremy began his research career as a research assistant at Heath Hospital in Cardiff from 1972 to 1974. Heath Hospital, now associated with the University Hospital of Wales, served as a major teaching-hospital center for clinical medicine in the Welsh capital.

From 1974 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the University of Oxford, followed by research work at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis from 1977 to 1978. Barnes Hospital was a major American teaching hospital associated with Washington University School of Medicine and with clinical and biomedical research in St. Louis. Jeremy then served as an instructor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from 1978 to 1980; Cornell was a leading American research university with an established tradition of scientific and medical scholarship.

He became a research fellow at the Royal Free Hospital in London in 1981 and remained there through 1994, also serving as an honorary lecturer in 1993. The Royal Free Hospital was a prominent London teaching hospital whose medical school and research departments contributed to British clinical and laboratory medicine. His doctoral work on vascular and platelet eicosanoids was completed during this period.

From 1994, Jeremy was a lecturer at the Bristol Heart Institute at Bristol Royal Infirmary and was also an honorary lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1994. The Bristol Heart Institute formed part of the University of Bristol's clinical research environment and specialized in cardiovascular medicine, surgery, and vascular research. His later research included studies of eicosanoid signaling, vascular smooth-muscle biology, oxidative stress, nitric oxide, and mechanisms relevant to cardiovascular disease.

Achievements

• Jeremy's cardiovascular research examined vascular and platelet eicosanoid signaling, including prostacyclin and thromboxane pathways relevant to vascular function, thrombosis, transplantation, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

• His later collaborative research at the University of Bristol contributed to studies of vascular smooth-muscle cells, oxidative stress, nitric oxide, and signaling mechanisms involved in cardiovascular pathology.

Works

• doctoral thesis

  • Vascular and platelet eicosanoids in the aetiology and treatment of cardiovascular disease

    (Doctoral thesis submitted to the University of London thr...)

    1993

• journal article

  • Wnt5a-induced Wnt1-inducible secreted protein-1 suppresses vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis induced by oxidative stress

    (Co-authored research from the University of Bristol exami...)

    2014
  • Effect of hydrogen sulphide-donating sildenafil (ACS6) on erectile function and oxidative stress in rabbit isolated corpus cavernosum and in hypertensive rats

    (Co-authored biomedical research examining the effects of ...)

    2009
  • Acute inhibition of superoxide formation and Rac1 activation by nitric oxide and iloprost in human vascular smooth muscle cells in response to the thromboxane A2 analogue, U46619

    (Co-authored research on nitric oxide, iloprost, superoxid...)

    2008

Membership

Jeremy was associated with the Royal Society of Health, the British Pharmacological Society, and the British Diabetic Association. These organizations supported public health, pharmacological science, and diabetes research and advocacy in Britain.

• Fellow

  Royal Society of Health , United Kingdom

• Member

  British Pharmacological Society , United Kingdom

• Member

  British Diabetic Association , United Kingdom

Interests

• Writing prose; painting.

• Artists

  Painting

Connections

Jeremy married Andrea Natali-Silverman on June 5, 1980; the marriage ended in divorce in 1983. His parents were James William Jeremy and Marjorie Una Clark Jeremy.

Father:

James William Jeremy

Mother:

Marjorie Una Clark Jeremy

Wife:

Andrea Natali-Silverman

Married on June 5, 1980; the marriage ended in divorce in 1983.

References

• UCL Discovery: Vascular and platelet eicosanoids in the aetiology and treatment of cardiovascular disease University of London doctoral thesis record documenting Jeremy's doctoral research and its biomedical subject matter.
  1993