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Toxicological Sciences 62, 4-5 (2001)
Copyright © 2001 by the Society of Toxicology

PROFILES IN TOXICOLOGY

Carshalton in the 1960s

Hanspeter Witschi*,1 and Edward Lock{dagger}

* ITEH and Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616; and {dagger} AstraZeneca Ltd., Central Toxicology Laboratory, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom

The United Kingdom Medical Research Council Toxicology Research Unit, located about 15 miles south of London in the suburb of Carshalton, was one of the most exciting places for mechanistic research in toxicology during the 1960's. The unit occupied most of the space in a large building, located on a few dozen acres of open ground. It was not isolated; 3 more MRC Units (neurobiology, virus research, and animal sciences) occupied part of the same facility and across the meadow was the newly built BIBRA laboratories (British Industrial Biological Research Association), a research institute founded and directed by Leon Golberg. But by far the largest unit in this set-up was the Toxicology Research Unit, directed by John Morrison Barnes.

It was a most stimulating environment in which to conduct research. John Barnes was an acknowledged authority in toxicology and much sought after as a consultant by the World Health Organization . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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