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Professor Annette Catherine Dolphin serves as Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London (UCL), a position she has held since 1997. Previously, she was Professor and Head of Department at Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (1990-1997) and held academic positions at St George's Hospital Medical School.
Her educational background includes a BA in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of London, Institute of Psychiatry. Postdoctoral training followed at College de France (Paris) and Yale University School of Medicine under Nobel laureate Paul Greengard.
Dolphin's research centers on voltage-gated calcium channel function, with expertise in electrophysiology, biochemistry, and imaging techniques. Her work spans presynaptic mechanisms in synaptic transmission, pain pathway neurotransmission, and neurological/psychiatric disease models involving calcium channel subunits. Current investigations focus on neuronal calcium channels in peripheral pain pathways.
Major recognitions include election to the Royal Society (2015) and Academy of Medical Sciences (1999), the GL Brown Prize, Pfizer Prize in Biology, and the 2024 Presidency of The Physiological Society. She has delivered prestigious lectures including the Mary Pickford Lecture (2015) and David Smith Lecture (2023).
As a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and former Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow (2016-17), she has maintained continuous research funding for over 30 years. Her laboratory at UCL has established critical methodologies for studying calcium channel regulation in neurological disorders, with particular emphasis on translating basic mechanisms into therapeutic targets for pain and channelopathies.
