Graham Leon Collingridge (born 1 February 1955) is a British

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, Biological neural network, n ...

and professor at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institu ...

and at the

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a Red brick university, red brick Russell Group research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Society of Merchant Venturers, Merchant Venturers' sc ...

. He is also a senior investigator at the

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute is a medical research institute in Toronto, Ontario and part of the Sinai Health System. It was originally established in 1985 as the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, the research arm of Mount Sin ...

, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Collingridge's research focuses on the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in health and disease, in particular, understanding synaptic plasticity in molecular terms and how pathological alterations in these processes may lead to major brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. He was with Professors

Tim Bliss Timothy Vivian Pelham Bliss FRS (born 27 July 1940) is a British neuroscientist. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, and a group leader emeritus at the Francis Crick Institute, London. In 2016 Professor Tim Bliss shared w ...

and Richard Morris as the first UK scientists to share the Brain Prize.

Life

Collingridge was educated at

Enfield Grammar School Enfield Grammar School (abbreviated to EGS; also known as Enfield Grammar) is a boys' Comprehensive school and sixth form with academy status, founded in 1558, situated in Enfield Town in the London Borough of Enfield in North London. Histor ...

and earned his undergraduate degree in pharmacology from

and a PhD from the School of Pharmacy (University College London). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of physiology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and in the department of physiology and pharmacology at the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensiv ...

(Sydney, Australia). In 1983 he was appointed to a lectureship at the department of pharmacology at the University of Bristol. From 1990 until 1994 he was the departmental chair in pharmacology at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...

(UK). In 1994 he returned to the University of Bristol as the professor of neuroscience in anatomy. There he served as departmental chair of anatomy (1997–1999) and then as the director of the MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity (1999–2012). He currently holds an appointment in the school of physiology, pharmacology and neuroscience at the University of Bristol, UK. From 2015 to 2019 Collingridge served as the Ernest B. and Leonard B. Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Collingridge has held visiting professorships at the University of British Columbia and at Seoul National University. He served as editor-in-chief of ''Neuropharmacology'' from 1993 until 2010. In 1997 he was elected a founder fellow of the European DANA Alliance; and in 1998 he was elected a founder fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK). In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society, and from 2007 until 2009 he served as president of the

British Neuroscience Association The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) is a scientific society with around 2,500 members. Starting out as an informal gathering of scientists meeting at the Black Hourse Public House in London to discuss brain-related topics (the 'London Blac ...

(BNA). He is currently the president of the Canadian Physiological Society (CPS) and a reviews editor for the scientific journal ''Molecular Brain''. He is currently the director of the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases and a holds the Krembil Family Chair in Alzheimer's Research in the department of physiology at the University of Toronto. He is also a senior investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Collingridge also holds an appointment in the school of physiology, pharmacology and neuroscience at the

, UK. Collingridge is a member of the scientific advisory board of HelloBio Ltd., a supplier of biotechnology tools, based in

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, UK. He was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to biomedical sciences.

Honours and awards

# 1992 Sharpey-Shafer Prize (The Physiological Society) # 1997 Founder Fellow, European DANA Alliance # 1998 Founder Fellow,

Academy of Medical Sciences The Academy of Medical Sciences is an organisation established in the UK in 1998. It is one of the four UK National Academies, the others being the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society. Its mission is to ad ...

# 2001 Elected Fellow,

The Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, r ...

# 2003 Gaddam Memorial Prize (The Pharmacological Society) # 2007 President, British Neuroscience Association # 2008 The Santiago Grisolia Prize # 2013 The Feldberg Prize # 2016 The Brain Prize, European Brain Research Foundation

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Collingridge, Graham 1955 births Living people People educated at Enfield Grammar School Alumni of the University of Bristol Alumni of the University of London British neuroscientists Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the University of Bristol Commanders of the Order of the British Empire