Dolphin was educated at Street Hugh"s College, Oxford where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry in 1973, and the Institute of Psychiatry at King"s College London where she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1977 for research on noradrenaline receptors.
Before working at University College London, Dolphin held posts at the Collège de France, Yale University, the National Institute for Medical Research, Street George"s, University of London and the Royal Free Hospital.
Dolphin was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999 and as a Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads: Dolphin has received a number awards for her research, including the British Psychological Society (BPS) Sandoz Prize and the Pfizer Prize in Biology. She has also been awarded prize lectures such as the G. L. Brown Prize Lecture of The Physiological Society, the Julius Axelrod Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience of the University of Toronto, the BPS Gary Price Memorial Lecture and, most recently, the Mary Pickford Lecture of the University of Edinburgh and the United Kingdom Physiological Society’s Annual Review Prize Lecture.
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