Professor Annette C. Dolphin

Professor Annette C. Dolphin received her BA in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) from the University of Oxford and her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She held postdoctoral fellowships at the College de France in Paris, and at Yale University, before returning to a post at the National Institute for Medical Research. She then took up a lectureship at St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, and was appointed to the chair of Pharmacology at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, in 1990. Following the merger of this Department with the UCL Department in 1997, she moved to the UCL campus. She is internationally recognised for her work on voltage-gated calcium channels. She was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999. She has received several prizes including the Sandoz Prize of the British Pharmacological Society (1986), Pfizer Prize in Biology (1991) and the G.L. Brown Prize of the Physiological Society (1994). She is currently an Editor of Pharmacological Reviews.