Frank Winton (1894–1985) held the Chair of Pharmacology from 1938 to 1961. His main scientific interest was in the control of blood flow to the kidney. Winton ran the department through the difficult war years when the Medical School was evacuated to Leatherhead, Surrey.
He appointed the first two female academics in the department. Mary Lockett (1911–1982) was a lecturer in the department from 1945 - 1950. Hannah Steinberg arrived in the UK from Vienna on a Kindertransport train while still a schoolgirl, and she eventually became Professor of Psychopharmacology.
Winton also worked hard and successfully to ensure that pharmacology had an appropriate place in the preclinical curriculum. He oversaw the extension of the department, including the Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (now the Schild Theatre).
He was the author, with [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/current-students/money/scholarships/life/bayliss  Leonard Bayliss], of a widely used textbook Human Physiology, first published in 1932. The 6th edition, 1968 was written by Olof J.C. Lippold and F.R Winton