Education
He earned a Master of Science from University College London, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Glasgow.
He earned a Master of Science from University College London, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Glasgow.
He holds the Gaddum Chair of Pharmacology and a personal Chair in Neuroscience at University College London. After working as a Royal Society Exchange Fellow at the University of Lund with Professor Stephen Thesleff, he held a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship in University College London"s Biophysics Department with Sir Bernard Katz and Professor Ricardo Miledi. He was previously a Wellcome Trust Reader and then Professor of Pharmacology.
He has been an Editorial Advisor to Nature, and served on the Editorial Boards of various journals including Neuron, The Journal of Physiology and as a Reviewing Editor on Journal of Neuroscience.
He was awarded the GL Brown Prize by the United Kingdom Physiological Society, and was appointed a Howard Hughes International Scholar in 1993 (one of only 20 in the United Kingdom). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Pharmacological Society.
His research focuses on understanding molecular and functional properties of glutamate receptor channels underlying fast synaptic transmission in the brain. He has been a keen advocate of patch-clamp recording techniques combined with molecular methods for investigating central synaptic transmission.
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He is also a member of the Faculty of 1000 and holds a Royal Society - Wolfson Research position. Currently he is a member of the Royal Society"s University Research Fellowships Committee, and the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships panel.