Stuart Graham Cull-Candy (born 1946) is a British

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. He holds the Gaddum Chair of Pharmacology and a personal chair in neuroscience at

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. He is also a member of the

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and held a

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– Wolfson Research position.

Early life and education

Cull-Candy earned a

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degree in biology from

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, then a

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degree from University College London (1971), and a

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from the

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in 1974.

Career and research

After working as a Royal Society Exchange Fellow at the University of Lund with Prof Stephen Thesleff, he was awarded a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship to work in UCL's Biophysics Department with Sir Bernard Katz and Prof

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. He later moved to UCL's Pharmacology Department as a Wellcome Trust Reader and then Professor of Pharmacology. He has been an editorial advisor to

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, and served on the Editorial Boards of various journals including ''Neuron'', ''

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'' and as a Reviewing Editor on ''

Journal of Neuroscience ''The Journal of Neuroscience'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Society for Neuroscience. It covers empirical research on all aspects of neuroscience. Its editor-in-chief is Sabine Kastner (Princeton University), who su ...

''. Currently he is a member of the

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s Committee, and the

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Senior Research Fellowships panel. His research focuses on understanding molecular and functional properties of glutamate receptor channels underlying fast synaptic transmission in the brain. His research activities also include the study of ionotropic

γ-aminobutyric acid GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid, γ-aminobutyric acid) is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the developmentally mature mammalian central nervous system. Its principal role is reducing neuronal excitability throughout the nervous system. GA ...

and

glutamate receptor Glutamate receptors are synaptic and non synaptic receptors located primarily on the membranes of neuronal and glial cells. Glutamate (the conjugate base of glutamic acid) is abundant in the human body, but particularly in the nervous system ...

signalling and regulation of neurotransmitter release. He has been a keen advocate of patch-clamp recording techniques combined with molecular methods for investigating central synaptic transmission.

Awards and honours

He was awarded the GL Brown Prize by the UK Physiological Society, and was appointed a Howard Hughes International Scholar in 1993 (one of only 20 in the UK). He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in 2002, a

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) is an award for medical scientists who are judged by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences for the "excellence of their science, their contribution to medicine and society and the range of the ...

in 2004, an Honorary Fellow of the Physiological Society and a Fellow of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cull-Candy, Stuart Graham 1946 births Living people British neuroscientists Electrophysiologists Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alumni of University College London Academics of University College London