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 was later appointed Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at UCL.
Anne received a number awards for her research, including the British Psychological Society (BPS) Sandoz Prize and the Pfizer Prize in Biology. She was also 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, more 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 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.
Professor Annette Dolphin FMedSci FRS died on 26 January 2026.
Subject groups
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Multicellular Organisms
Cellular neuroscience, Pharmacology (non-clinical), Physiology incl biophysics of cells (non-clinical)
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Molecules of Life
Biochemistry and molecular biology, Cell biology (incl molecular cell biology)
