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Biographical Notes
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High flying scientist. Born in York. Married Professor Robert Naylor c1969. Educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, Lincolnshire and Bradford University. She gained a first-class honours degree in Pharmacy and later a doctorate and then a higher doctorate in neuropharmacology (the study of the brain and how drugs affect it). Her first professor didn’t think that women should hold senior positions and advised her not to be ambitious. She ignored him and began her career working as a lecturer in Pharmacology at Bradford University. Later she started doing research at the University. There Brenda and her husband worked within the neuropharmacology group and in 1987 gained attention for there work with a schizophrenia drug for Glaxo. In 1991, as director of the group, she was doing research on the Glaxo drug Ondansetron. By then her work was taking her around the world, as she was asked to speak about her drug research and development. Three years later she became deputy vice-chancellor of Bradford University.
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