Professor Annette Dolphin FMedSci FRS

Annette Dolphin obtained her PhD from the University of London Institute of Psychiatry. After postdoctoral fellowships abroad, she joined the National Institute for Medical Research in London, subsequently becoming a lecturer at St George’s Hospital Medical School. In 1990, Anne was appointed Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, moving to University College London (UCL) in 1997. She is currently Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at UCL.

Anne has received a number awards for her research, including the British Psychological Society (BPS) Sandoz Prize and the Pfizer Prize in Biology. She has also been awarded prize lectures such as the G. L. Brown Prize Lecture of the UK Physiological Society, the Julius Axelrod Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience of the University of Toronto, the BPS Gary Price Memorial Lecture and, most recently, the Mary Pickford Lecture of the University of Edinburgh and the UK Physiological Society’s Annual Review Prize Lecture. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999.

Subject groups

  • Multicellular Organisms

    Cellular neuroscience, Pharmacology (non-clinical), Physiology incl biophysics of cells (non-clinical)

  • Molecules of Life

    Biochemistry and molecular biology, Cell biology (incl molecular cell biology)

Committees Participated Role
Council November 2022 - November 2025 Member
Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Sr. R'search F'ship Panel November 2022 - October 2025 Member
Sectional Committee 8: Multicellular organisms December 2016 - October 2019 Member
Library Committee January 2016 - July 2017 Member
Grants Committee November 2015 - December 2018 Member