Nigel Emptage#
| Membership Number: | 4930 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://pharm.ox.ac.uk/team/nigel-emptage |
| Twitter: | @nigeljemptage |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Head of the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
- 2010 Professor of Neuropharmacology, University of Oxford
- 2007 - 2012 Senior Dean, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
- 2000 - 2010 University Lecturer, University of Oxford
- 2000 - Nuffield Tutorial Fellow (Pre-Clin. Medicine) Lincoln College, University of Oxford
- 1994 - 2000 Postdoc; Mentor: Tim Bliss, FRS, NIMR, London
- 1991 - 1994 Postdoc; SERC-NATO Fellowship, T. Carew Yale Univ, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Optical recording of neuronal activity
- Education and mentoring
- Microscope development
- Optics
- Neurotransmitter receptor pharmacology
- Electrophysiology of neurons
- Molecular signalling pathways and mechanisms
- Synaptic signalling
- Cellular roles of calcium
Honours and Awards
- Sept. 2018 Pharmaron Prize and Lecture, Peking University, Shenzhen
- 2017 Teaching Excellence Award, University of Oxford
- 2017 Visiting Professorship CAS, Chengdu, China
