David Horrobin
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Dr David Frederick Horrobin (6 October 1939 - 1 April 2003) was a medical researcher, entrepeneur, author and editor. A pioneering resarcher in the field of fatty acids and a strong supporter of the benefits of fish oils and Evening Primrose Oil.
He attended Balliol College, Oxford, during this time he was influenced by the nutritionist Hugh Macdonald Sinclair. He was appointed Professor and chairman of medical physiology at Nairobi University in 1969. Appointed as a reader in medical physiology at University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972 and in 1975 became Professor of medicine at the University of Montreal
In 1979 he setup the Efamol Research Institute in Nova Scotia, in 1987 this became Scotia Pharmaceuticals with bases in Canada, Scotland and England. He was ousted in a boardroom coup in 1997. His next business was Laxdale Ltd to examine the use of essential fatty acids in treating Schizophrenia and other neurodegenerative diseases.
He founded the journals 'Medical Hypotheses' and 'Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids', published 800 papers and wrote or edited over a dozen books. He was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma which he died of in 2003.
[edit] Books
- The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity, 2001, Bantam Press, ISBN 0593046498
[edit] External links
- Controversial Obituary from the BMJ
- Review of The Madness of Adam and Eve, The Guardian, April 2001
- Not in the genes, The Guardian, February 2003
- Drug trials are pointless ... and unethical, Sunday Herald, March 2003
