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UCL Faculty Of Life Sciences
The UCL Faculty of Life Sciences is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL). History The roots of UCL’s Faculty of Life Sciences can be traced back to 1826, when the Chairs of Botany and Comparative Anatomy were established; with the Departments of Zoology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Botany and Microbiology all stemming from the Chair of Botany. Since the Faculty’s establishment it has contributed to many major breakthroughs in history including Nobel Prize winner, James Black, work on β-blockers and histamine H2 receptor antagonists. Most recently, the School of Pharmacy, established in 1842, merged with UCL in 2012, becoming one of two divisions within the Faculty of Life Sciences. Departments and divisions The Faculty currently comprises the following departments, divisions and institutes: *UCL Division of Biosciences **UCL Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology **UCL Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraint Rees
Geraint Ellis Rees is Vice- Provost of research, innovation & global engagement at University College London (UCL). Previously he served as Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL Pro-Provost (Academic Planning), Pro-Vice-Provost (AI) and a Professor of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. He is also a Director of UCL Business and a trustee of the Guarantors of Brain. Until 2021 he was a founding Trustee of the charity in2scienceUK; until 2016 he was a member of the Francis Crick Institute Executive Team; from 2012 - 2014 he was Deputy Head of the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, and from 2009 to 2014 the Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. He held a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship from 2003 to 2018. Education Rees received his Bachelor of Arts degree in the Medical Science Tripos in 1988 from the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He moved to the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalind Raine
Rosalind Raine is a British applied health research scientist, public medicine doctor, professor of health care evaluation and the founding head of the Department of Applied Health Research at University College London (UCL). She has made major contributions to UK national health policy, particularly around health and health care inequalities and on service effectiveness. Education and early training Raine holds a BSc in Psychology and an MBBS in Medicine both from University College London (UCL), an MSc in Public Health Medicine and a PhD in Public Health, both from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She spent her early career training as a Junior Doctor in London, specialising in Public Health and she practiced as an honorary consultant in public health medicine in London between 1998 and 2005. Raine also worked as an academic in Public Health: she was a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Research Fellow (1997–2001), MRC Clinician Scientist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Dolphin
Annette Catherine Dolphin (born 1951) is a Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London (UCL). Education Dolphin was educated at the University of Oxford where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry in 1973, and the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London where she was awarded a PhD in 1977 for research on noradrenaline receptors. Career and research Dolphin is a leader in the field of neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels. She is distinguished for her work on the regulation of calcium channel trafficking and function, and the modulation of that function by activation of G-protein coupled receptors. Her work on the control of calcium channel trafficking by auxiliary calcium channel subunits has been particularly influential. She has elucidated the topology and processing of this family of proteins. Before working at UCL, Dolphin held appointments at the Collège de France, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Todd (chemist)
Matthew Houghton Todd (born 13 January 1973) is a British chemist and the Professor and Chair of Drug Discovery of the School of Pharmacy at University College London. He is the founder of Open Source Malaria (OSM) and his research focuses on drug discovery and development for this disease. Recently, he has expanded to other areas, particularly neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and mycetoma in the Open Source Tuberculosis (OSTB) and Open Source Mycetoma (MycetOS) project, through a collaboration with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative and Erasmus MC. In addition, he has some research activity in catalysis and methodology. Education Todd received an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1995. He obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry at the same institution in 1999, working with Chris Abell on encoding and linker strategies for combinatorial chemistry. Todd was a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Orengo
Christine Anne Orengo is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL)Christine Orengo's known for her work on protein structure, particularly the CATH database. Orengo serves as president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), the first woman to do so in the history of the society. Education Orengo studied Chemical Physics at the University of Bristol where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1976. She continued her studies at the University of Aberdeen where she was awarded a Master of Science degree in Medical Physics in 1977 for research on the disruption of iron metabolism in laboratory rats with Yoshida sarcomas. She was awarded a PhD for research on the redox properties of haem in proteins in 1984 from UCL. Career and research Following her PhD, Orengo worked in industry as Chief Chemist for FCI International, Brussels and mathematical modeller for Humphreys & Glasgow in London. In 1987 she was appointed a postdoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Keck
Tara Keck (born November 26, 1978, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American-British neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, at University College London working in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology. She studies experience-dependent synaptic plasticity, its effect on behaviour and how it changes during ageing and age-related diseases. She has worked in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund on approaches for healthy ageing. Her recent work has focused on loneliness in older people, with a focus on gender. She was named a UNFPA Generations and Gender Fellow in 2022. Education Professor Keck attended Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, majoring in bioengineering and then earned a PhD in biomedical engineering from Boston University in 2005, working with John White. She grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania and attended Fairview High School. Career Professor Keck completed her postdoctoral re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Partridge
Professor Dame Linda Partridge (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing ( biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Partridge is currently Weldon Professor of Biometry at thInstitute of Healthy Ageing , and Founding Director of the in Cologne, Germany. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Jones (scientist)
Katherine Elizabeth Jones (born 1972) is a British biodiversity scientist, with a special interest in bats. She is Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity, and Director of the Biodiversity Modelling Research Group, at University College London. She is a past chair of the Bat Conservation Trust. Education Jones graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Leeds in 1993 and with a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey in 1998. Research Jones is interested in understanding how biodiversity is maintained and conserved globally. She won a 2008 Philip Leverhulme Award in Zoology (given to "outstanding young scholars … whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise") and holds a number of scientific advisory board positions for national and international conservation charities. Jones has researched bats in Transylvania where she developed new ways of monitoring bat populations through sound. Jones has been involved in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan E
Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), from Greek ''Sousanna'', from Latin ''Susanna'', from Old French ''Susanne''. Variations * Susana (given name), Susanna, Susannah * Suzana, Suzanna, Suzannah * Susann, Suzan, Suzann * Susanne (given name), Suzanne * Susanne (given name) * Suzan (given name) * Suzanne * Suzette (given name) * Suzy (given name) * Zuzanna (given name) *Cezanne (Avant-garde) Nicknames Common nicknames for Susan include: * Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Poosan, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie, Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti In other languages * fa, سوسن (Sousan, Susan) ** tg, Савсан (Savsan), tg, Сӯсан (Sūsan) * ku, Sosna,Swesne * ar, سوسن (Sawsan) * hy, Շուշան (Šušan) * (Sushan) * Sujan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Brodsky
Frances Brodsky is an American cell biologist. She is known for her work on clathrin and its role in the function of the immune system. She is a professor of cell biology and the director of the Division of Biosciences (part of the Faculty of Life Sciences) at University College London. She is the author of three scientific mystery novels under the pseudonym B.B. Jordan. She was the founding editor of the journal ''Traffic''. Education Brodsky earned her B.Sc. in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1976. She received a Marshall Scholarship to study in the UK and performed research in the laboratory of Walter Bodmer at Oxford University, obtaining a D. Phil. (Oxford's term for a Ph.D.) in 1979. Career After postdoctoral work at Harvard University and Stanford University, Brodsky joined Becton Dickinson as a program manager in cell biology in 1982. In 1987, she returned to academia as an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ijeoma Uchegbu
Ijeoma Uchegbu is a Nigerian-British Professor of Pharmacy at University College London where she held the position of Pro-Vice Provost for Africa and the Middle East. She is the Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics, a pharmaceutical nanotechnology company specialising in drug delivery solutions for poorly water-soluble drugs, nucleic acids and peptides. She is also a Governor of the Wellcome, a large biomedical research charity. Apart from her highly cited scientific research in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Uchegbu is also known for her work in science public engagement and equality and diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). In December 2023, it was announced that she will become President of Wolfson College, Cambridge in October 2024. Education and early career Uchegbu grew up in Hackney and South East Nigeria. She studied pharmacy at the University of Benin, graduating in 1981, and earned her master's degree at the University of Lagos. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki FMedSci FRS is a British and French neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics. He was educated at University College London (UCL) where he was Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society before being appointed Professor of Neurobiology. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL. Early work Zeki's early work was mainly anatomical in nature and consisted in charting visual areas in the primate (monkey) brain by studying their connections, leading him to define several visual areas lying anterior to the primary visual cortex (area V1) of the brain. This was followed by recording from single cells in these areas, which led him to the view (a) that there is a functional specialisation in the visual cortex, with different visual areas undert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
