Helen Valerie Curran#

Membership Number:6961
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychopharmacology/
ORCID:0000-0001-6011-6978


Present and Previous Positions
  • 2000 - 2022 Professor of Psychopharmacology, University College London; 2022- present Emeritus Professor
  • 2017- present Professorial Fellow, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia (0.2 FTE)
  • 2000 - 2022 Research Lead, Drug Services, Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Trust
  • 1999 - 2022 Founder & Director, UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit.
  • 1995 - 2022 Hon. Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
  • 1995 – 2000 Reader in Psychopharmacology, UCL
  • 1990 - 1994 Senior lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), Kings College London (KCL)
  • 1990 - 1994 Honorary Clinical Psychologist, Maudsley Hospital, London
  • 1986 – 1990 Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, IoPPN, KCL
  • 1983 – 1986 Research Fellow, IoPPN, KCL

Fields of Scholarship
  • Psychedelics, cannabinoids and ketamine
  • Short and long-term consequences of ketamine use
  • Cognitive effects of benzodiazepines
  • Cannabinoids, adolescence and addiction
  • Drugs and memory
  • Effects of Cannabis and cannabinoids on humans


Honours and Awards
  • 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, British Association of Psychopharmacology
  • 2013 Memory and the Law Working Party, British Psychological Society
  • 2011 Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Biology
  • 2010 - 2018 Scientific Advisor, The Beckley Foundation
  • 2012 - present Faculty Member, F1000
  • 2009 Founder member: DRUG SCIENCE – the only independent, science-led drugs charity. It brings together leading drugs experts from a wide range of specialisms to carry out ground breaking research into drug harms and effects. She has sat on the Expert Scientific Committee since 2009
  • 2012 - 2019 Scientific Advisor, All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform2011 - 2015 Awards for documentaries about her research (Drugs Live: Ecstasy 2011; Drugs Live: Cannabis 2015) by Channel 4 television (the cannabis one won 1st prize as Best Specialist Programme of the Year from the Association of International Broadcasters
  • March 2014 1st prize, UCL Brains on Film Competition. An educational animated cartoon we made about cannabinoids which was set to hip hop music composed by 11-16 year old school children. Sent free to science departments in UK schools
  • 2009 - 2014 Elected Member of Council, British Association of Psychopharmacology
  • 2006 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
  • 2001 Elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS); an international society of the world’s leading memory researchers
  • 1993 Winston Churchill Fellowship
  • 1979 Susan Isaacs Research Fellowship

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