Annette Catherine Dolphin#
| Membership Number: | 4772 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/departments/npp/people/iris-profiles/dolphin-annette |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1973 - 1977 PhD: Professor C.D. Marsden FRS, Dept. Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
- 1977 - 1978 Research Fellow (MRC-CNRS Postdoctoral Fellowship) College de France, Paris, France (mentors Prof. J. Bockaert and Prof. J. Glowinski)
- 1978 - 1980 Research Associate, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA (mentor: Professor P. Greengard).
- 1980 - 1983 Member of Scientific Staff, Division of Neurophysiology & Neuropharmacology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, UK.
- 1983 - 1988 Lecturer in Pharmacology, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London.
- 1988 - 1990 Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Pharmacology, St George’s HMS.
- 1990 - 1997 Professor and Head of Department of Pharmacology, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine.
- 1997 Professor of Pharmacology, University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuropharmacology
- Primary afferent neurotransmission- pain pathways
- Synaptic transmission- presynaptic mechanisms
- Molecular and cellular neuroscience
- Ion channels, particularly voltage-gated calcium channels
Honours and Awards
- University awards and fellowships:
- 1969 Open exhibition, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford
- 1973 St. Hugh’s College Prize
- 1977 MRC French Exchange Fellowship
- 1979 Yale University School of Medicine Fellowship
- Honours and awards:
- 1986 Sandoz Prize of British Pharmacological Society
- 1990 Australasian visitor of British Pharmacological Society (BPS)
- 1991 Pfizer Prize in Biology
- 1994 GL Brown Prize of the Physiological Society
- 1996 Astra Anglo-Nordic visiting scientist and lecturer of the BPS
- 1999 elected Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2000 Julius Axelrod Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience, Toronto
- 2011 Gary Price memorial lecture British Pharmacological Society
- 2015 Inaugural Mary Pickford lecture, Edinburgh University
- 2015 Plenary lecturer: British Neuroscience Association
- 2015 Annual Review Prize lecture: Physiological Society
- 2015 elected Fellow of Royal Society
- 2016 - 2017 awarded Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
