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Head of Research Department: Professor Trevor Smart
Executive Officer: Tina Bashford

Staff Member	Research Interests	Email	Telephone
Professor Trevor G. Smart Schild Professor of Pharmacology and Head of Department	Molecular pharmacology of GABA and glycine receptor-ion channels	t.smart@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3770 Internal: 33770
Professor Jonathan Ashmore Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics	Cellular mechanisms of hearing	j.ashmore@ucl.ac.uk Personal lab page	020 7679 8937 Internal: 28937 020 7679 2141 Internal: 32141
Professor David Attwell Jodrell Professor of Physiology	Neuron-glial interactions and brain energy supply	d.attwell@ucl.ac.uk Personal lab page	020 7679 7342 Internal: 37342
Professor Marco Beato Professor of Neuroscience	Glycinergic inhibition in the ventral spinal cord	m.beato@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3767 Internal: 33767
Dr Isaac Bianco Sir Henry Dale Fellow	Zebrafish circuits and behaviour	i.bianco@ucl.ac.uk	020 3549 5509 Internal: 65509
Professor Francesca Cacucci Professor of Neuroscience	Hippocampal neural circuits	f.cacucci@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 6205 Internal: 46205
Professor Shamshad Cockcroft Professor of Cell Physiology	Lipid signalling	s.cockcroft@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 6259 Internal: 46259 020 7679 6084 Internal: 46084 020 7679 6091 Internal: 46091
Professor Stuart Cull-Candy Gaddum Chair of Pharmacology and Professor of Neuroscience	Calcium-permeable AMPARs and synaptic plasticity	s.cull-candy@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3766 Internal: 33766 020 7679 3689 Internal: 33689
Professor Anthony Dickenson Professor of Neuropharmacology	Transmission and control of pain	anthony.dickenson@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3742 Internal: 33742
Professor Annette Dolphin Professor of Pharmacology	Voltage-dependent calcium channels	a.dolphin@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3276 Internal: 33276
Professor Frances Edwards Professor of Neurodegeneration	The hippocampus in health and disease	f.a.edwards@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3286 Internal: 33286
Dr Lorenzo Fabrizi MRC Career Development Fellow	Development of cortical function in humans	l.fabrizi@ucl.ac.uk	020 3108 1888 Internal: 51888
Professor Mark Farrant Professor of Neuroscience	Ionotropic GABA and glutamate receptor signalling	m.farrant@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 4121 Internal: 34121
Professor Maria Fitzgerald Professor of Developmental Neurobiology	The developmental biology of spinal cord and cortical pain processing	m.fitzgerald@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 7376 Internal: 37376 020 7679 1303 Internal: 31303 020 7679 3387 Internal: 33387
Professor Jonathan Fry Professor of Physiology	Steroid hormones	j.fry@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 6214 Internal: 46214
Professor Alasdair Gibb Professor of Pharmacology	Ion channel receptors and synaptic transmission	a.gibb@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3747 Internal: 33747 020 7679 1398 Internal: 31398
Dr Matthew Gold Sir Henry Dale Fellow	Molecular basis of neuronal second messaging	m.gold@ucl.ac.uk Personal lab page	020 7679 7161 Internal: 37161
Professor Alexander Gourine Professor of Physiology	Cardiovascular and respiratory neurophysiology	a.gourine@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 6547 Internal: 46547 020 7679 2565 Internal: 32565
Professor Giandomenico Iannetti Professor of Neuroscience	Human sensory neuroscience	g.iannetti@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3759 Internal: 33759 020 7679 3750 Internal: 33750
Professor Tara Keck Professor of Neuroscience	Cortical synaptic plasticity	t.keck@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 6381 Internal: 46381
Dr Brian King Senior Lecturer	Signalling of the purinoceptor family	b.king@ucl.ac.uk	020 7794 0500 Internal: 35204 020 7679 6171 Internal: 46171
Professor Josef Kittler Professor of Molecular Neurobiology	Cell biology of the synapse	j.kittler@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3218 Internal: 33218
Dr Stephanie Koch	Biosciences Divisional Research Fellow	s.koch@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3386 Internal: 33386
Dr Andrew Macaskill Sir Henry Dale Fellow	Synaptic and circuit basis of emotional behaviour	a.macaskill@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 4376 Internal: 34376 020 7679 3736 Internal: 33736
Dr Joanne Marks Associate Professor	Regulation of epithelial transport in health and disease	joanne.marks@ucl.ac.uk	020 7794 0500 Internal: 37583
Professor Neil Millar Professor of Molecular Pharmacology	Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors	n.millar@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 7241 Internal: 37241
Dr Guy Moss Reader in Neuroscience	Cellular and molecular biophysics	g.moss@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3752 Internal: 33752 020 7679 0499 Internal: 30499
Professor Paola Pedarzani Professor of Neurophysiology	Ion channels regulating neuronal excitability and firing properties	p.pedarzani@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 2805 Internal: 32805 020 7679 7744 Internal: 37744
Professor Andreas Schaefer (joint with The Francis Crick Institute) Professor of Neuroscience	Neurophysiology of behaviour	a.schaefer@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 6480 Internal: 46480
Professor Ralf Schoepfer Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Neurobiology	Molecules found in synapses	r.schoepfer@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 7242 Internal: 37242
Professor Talvinder Sihra Professor of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience	Mechanisms of neurotransmitter release	t.sihra@ucl.ac.uk Personal lab page	020 7679 3296 Internal: 33296 020 7679 3385 Internal: 33385
Professor Angus Silver Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow	Synaptic transmission and neural computation	a.silver@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 7830 Internal: 37830
Professor Lucia Sivilotti AJ Clark Professor of Pharmacology	Nicotinic and glycine receptors	l.sivilotti@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3358 Internal: 33358
Dr Martin Stocker Reader in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Molecular pharmacology and physiology of potassium channels	m.stocker@ucl.ac.uk	020 3549 5671 Internal: 65671
Professor Stefan Trapp Professor of Autonomic Neuroscience and Metabolic Disease	Autonomic neuroscience and metabolic disease	s.trapp@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 6094 Internal: 46094
Dr Paola Vergani Senior Lecturer	CFTR in cystic fibrosis	p.vergani@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 7908 Internal: 37908
Dr Dean Willis Lecturer	Mechanisms of physiological and pathological inflammation	dean.willis@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3755 Internal: 33755
Professor Christopher Yeo Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience	How the cerebellum generates behaviour	c.yeo@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3339 Internal: 33339 020 7679 2007 Internal: 32007 020 7679 7377 Internal: 37377
Dr Anselm Zdebik Senior Lecturer	Chloride/proton antiporters	a.zdebik@ucl.ac.uk	020 7794 0500 Internal: 37508

Postdoctoral Fellows

Group Leaders	Title	Email	Telephone
Isaac Bianco	Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship UCL Excellence Fellowship	i.bianco@ucl.ac.uk	020 3549 5509 Internal: 65509
Lorenzo Fabrizi	MRC Career Development Award	l.fabrizi@ucl.ac.uk	020 3108 1888 Internal: 51888
Matthew Gold	Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship	m.gold@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 7161 Internal: 37161
Stephanie Koch	Biosciences Divisional Research Fellow	s.koch@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 3386 Internal: 33386
Andrew MacAskill	Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship UCL Excellence Fellowship	a.macaskill@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 4376 Internal: 34376 020 7679 3736 Internal: 33736

Postdoctoral Fellows & Grant Awardees	Title	Email
Paride Antinucci	Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow	p.antinucci@ucl.ac.uk
Susu Chen	Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow	susu.chen@ucl.ac.uk
Saad Hannan	International Rett Syndrome Foundation Mentored Training Fellowship	s.hannan@ucl.ac.uk
Ivan Kadurin	British Heart Foundation	j.kadurin@ucl.ac.uk
Thomas Pfeiffer	EMBO Fellowship	t.pfeiffer@ucl.ac.uk
Thomas Younts	Human Frontier Sciences Programme	t.younts@ucl.ac.uk
Kimberley Whitehead	Brain Research UK	k.whitehead@ucl.ac.uk
Asaph Zylbertal	BBSRC Discovery Fellow	a.zylbertal@ucl.ac.uk

Teaching Fellows

Staff Member	Email	Telephone
Dr Ian Edwards Senior Teaching Fellow	i.edwards@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 0125 Internal: 30125
Dr Martina Wicklein Senior Teaching Fellow	m.wicklein@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Batchelor Principal Teaching Fellow	a.batchelor@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 0479 Internal: 30479
Dr Pamela Houston Principal Teaching Fellow	p.houston@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 0745 Internal: 40745
Dr Margaret Mayston Principal Teaching Fellow	m.mayston@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 6076 Internal: 46076
Dr Richard Tunwell Principal Research Fellow	r.tunwell@ucl.ac.uk	020 7679 0750 Internal: 40750
Dr Joanna Edwards Pharmacology teaching Fellow	joanna.edwards@ucl.ac.uk

Associated Staff

Staff Member	Research Interests	Email
Dr Simon Beggs (at Institute of Child Health) Lecturer in Neurobiology of Paediatric Pain	Postnatal development of nociceptive processing	s.beggs@ucl.ac.uk
Professor David Brown Research Professor of Pharmacology	GPCR regulation of ion channel activity	d.a.brown@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Liam Browne (at WIBR) Sir Henry Dale Fellow	Nociceptive Circuits	liam.browne@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Rob Brownstone Brain Research Trust Chair of Neurosurgery, Motor Neuroscience & Movement Disorders, IoN		r.brownstone@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Neil Burgess Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy, IoN		n.burgess@ucl.ac.uk
Professor David Colquhoun Research Professor of Pharmacology	Single ion channel function	d.colquhoun@ucl.ac.uk
Professor John Foreman Emeritus Professor of Immunopharmacology		john.foreman@ucl.ac.uk
Professor John Garthwaite (at WIBR) Emeritus Professor of Experimental Neuroscience	Nitric oxide signalling in the brain	john.garthwaite@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Kenneth Harris (at Institute of Neurology) Professor of Quantitative Neuroscience	Computation and biology of neuronal self-organization	kenneth.harris@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Michael Hausser (at WIBR) Professor of Neuroscience	Neural computation	m.hausser@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Don Jenkinson Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology	Potassium channel pharmacology	d.jenkinson@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Robert Kleta (at Centre for Nephrology) Potter Chair of Nephrology	Physiology and pathophysiology of the kidney	r.kleta@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Jennifer Linden (at Ear Institute) Reader in Neuroscience	Brain mechanisms of listening and learning	j.linden@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Troy Margrie (at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre) Professor of Systems Neuroscience and Associate Director SWC	The cellular logic of sensory circuits	t.margrie@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Stephen Moss (at Tufts) Professor of Neuroscience		stephen.moss@tufts.edu
Professor Andy Ramage Emeritus Professor of Systems Pharmacology	Modulation of chemical neurotransmission	a.ramage@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Patricia Salinas (at CDB) Professor of Cellular Neurobiology	Cell signalling in synaptic plasticity and synapse degeneration	p.salinas@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Clare Stanford Emeritus Professor of Translational Neuropharmacology	Monoamine neuropharmacology	c.stanford@ucl.ac.uk
Professor John Wood (at WIBR) Professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Head of the Molecular Nociception Group	Molecular genetics of sensory neurons	j.wood@ucl.ac.uk

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Fellowships

*please click here to read the rules the Division of Biosciences applies to the senior Fellowships listed below
** please contact Dr Claire Westwood (email) with any queries about senior Fellowships

UCL Excellence Fellowship – see also Excellence Fellowship cohorts page. Round deadlines have been in August and May. The UCL Excellence Fellowship scheme is run by the School of Life and Medical Sciences and is open to the full range of disciplines in basic and applied life sciences.

MRC Career Development Award – opens 10 August 2018, closes 20 September 2018. The scheme supports talented post-doctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences to lead their own research plans and establish their own, independent research team. The award includes the fellow’s salary and support for research staff, consumables expenses, travel costs and capital equipment for up to five years.

* MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships - opens 10 August 2018, closes 20 September 2018. The SNCF supports researchers with a track record of effectively leading their own independent research to make the transition to research leadership and become an internationally recognised leader in their field. An SNCF provides funding for a challenging research programme, and an ambitious programme of research training which offers accelerated personal and career development. Applicants wanting to retain an existing position and combine this with research funding, should consider funding options under one of the grant schemes.

Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships - this scheme offers recently qualified postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to start independent research careers, working in some of the best research environments in the world. New applications are considered twice a year. Preliminary application deadline - 9 October 2018. Full application deadline - 18 December 2018. There will be an April 2019 round announced.

* Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship – 3 rounds/year early November, April and August. This scheme is for outstanding post-doctoral scientists wishing to build their own UK-based, independent research career addressing an important biomedical question. The award covers the fellow’s salary and research costs (including technical assistance) for five years. There may be a further 3 years of funding. The awardee can apply for this on condition he/she passes the interview by a Division of Biosciences Director/HoD lead panel. This is because, during the second stage of the Sir Henry Dale Fellowship UCL must support the candidate by 50% salary and after the 8th and final year the awardee becomes a tenured UCL Staff member.

European Research Council Starting Grants – deadlines tba. The scheme targets promising researchers who have the proven potential of becoming independent research leaders. The five-year award has a flexible budget that can be used to cover the fellow’s salary, PhD and postdoc posts, consumable, travel and equipment.

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship – deadline tba. This scheme is equivalent to the University Research Fellowships, but specifically targeted at individuals who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances such as parenting or caring responsibilities or health issues.

BBSRC David Phillips Fellowships – rounds have been opening February with May deadline. The scheme provides support for researchers with high academic and leadership potential wishing to establish their first independent research group. The award includes the fellow’s salary and a significant research support grant for five years.

Human Frontier Science Programme Fellowships (various schemes)
Please simply read up on these schemes, for instance… one is a scheme aimed at applicants with a Ph.D. in a biological discipline, who will broaden their expertise by proposing a project in the life sciences which is significantly different from their previous Ph.D. or postdoctoral work. HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country. Fellowship initiation deadline: 9 August 2018, Fellowship submission deadline: 23 August 2018
There is also a Career Development Award but this is only for those who have held a HFSP Fellowship.

Newton International Fellowship - see scheme notes. Support the development and training of postdoctoral researchers at an early stage of their career from any country outside the UK, by providing an opportunity to work at a UK research institution for two years. Look out for a March deadline 2019.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions - the goal of Individual Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers, wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility.
Deadline: 12 September 2018.

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