Head and shoulders image of Dr. Alan Boulton, professor of Psychiatry and director of the Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan.

Bio/Historical Note: Born and raised in Derbyshire, England, Dr. Alan Arthur Boulton earned a PhD in Biochemistry in 1962 from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He was appointed Honourary Research Fellow in the Department of Physiology, and staff member of the BMRC Unit for Research on the Chemical Pathology of Mental Disorders at the University of Birmingham. He remained there until 1968, when he accepted a research position with the Psychiatric Research Division of the Saskatchewan Department of Health in Saskatoon, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical College at the University of Saskatchewan. He achieved the rank of professor in the Department of Psychiatry in 1975 and maintained an active academic career in neurochemical research. He eventually served as director of Provincial Psychiatric Research until 1987 and then served as director of the University's Neuropsychiatric Research Unit until his retirement in 2003. Dr. Boulton founded Alviva Pharmaceuticals in 1998 and was its CEO until 2003, the same year he retired. Dr. Boulton died 13 September 2010 on Vancouver Island.