Additional Honours
He was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Jagiellonian University Medical College (formerly Copernicus Academy of Medicine) in 1977, Paris Descartes University in 1978, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1980 and the University of Aberdeen in 1983. John Vane was awarded the Lasker Award for the discovery of prostacyclin and was knighted in 1984 for his contributions to science.
John Vane married in 1948 to Elizabeth Daphne Page and had 2 daughters.
He died on November 19, 2004 in Princess Royal University Hospital, Kent, from long-term complications arising from leg and hip fractures he sustained in May of that year.
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