Primary Job Title Scientific Advisory Board Primary Organization 
Akari Therapeutics
Gender Male
Prof. Flower is recognized as one of the leading scientists in the field of inflammation in general and COX/LOX pathways specifically.
He is a recognized international authority on several inflammatory diseases as well as on lipoxins. He serves as consultant to numerous pharmaceutical companies.
Prof. Flower graduated in 1971 from the
University of Sheffield with a first class degree in Physiology.
He received his post graduate training at the department of pharmacology in the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London, where his supervisor was Sir John Vane.
He moved with Sir Vane, when the latter became R&D Director at the Wellcome foundation in Beckenham in Kent and worked there as part of his prostaglandin research team until 1984.
Prof. Flower left to take up the Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Bath where he also took over as Head of School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology from 1987 to 1989.
In 1989, he took up a post in the medical college of St. Bartholomew's hospital, where he became a Director and Founding member of the William Harvey Research Institute, William Harvey Research Limited, and the department of Biochemical Pharmacology.
He served as Head of the Institute between 1998 and 2002.
Prof. Flower is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and much of his research is funded by grants from the Wellcome Trust.
His main interests are the mechanism of action of anti-inflammatory drugs including Cox inhibitors and especially the glucocorticoid steroids.
