DDenton

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Derek Denton is Founding Director and Originating Board Member of the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, an autonomous Institute in the University of Melbourne, 1971-89.  Adjunct Scientist Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas, 1991; Elected Foreign Associate Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, 2000; Elected Fellow Royal Society (London), 1999; Foreign Associate National Academy of Sciences of the U.S., 1995; Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians London, 1988; Honorary Member, American Physiological Society, 1986; Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, 1979; Foreign Medical Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1974.  Formerly, First Vice President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, 1983-89 Chairman of Nominating Committee, 1988; and Committee on Aims and Functions of the 28 Commissions of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, 1989; Member of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Basic and Clinical Medical Research Awards Jury 1978-1991.  He is the Australian Academy of Science representative to the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, 2000. Professor Derek Denton has a primary interest in evolutionary biology and integrative physiology.  His particular field of research is instinctive behaviour. Over recent years he has worked in equatorial West Africa, carrying out investigations on the influence of salt on blood pressure in chimpanzees, and selective appetite studies on forest elephants and gorillas.  He is also studying the appetites of baboons with brain infusion experiments, and conducting studies on self-awareness in chimpanzees at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas.  At the Texas Imaging Center, he has been imaging effects of vegetative emotions - for example, thirst, and hunger for air. Books Published:  The Hunger for Salt, Springer Verlag, 1982, The Pinnacle of Life, Allen & Unwin, 1992, Harper Collins, San Francisco, Flammarion, Paris, Kinokuniya, Japan.

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