Graham Collingridge
Graham Collingridge
Graham Collingridge obtained his undergraduate degree in Pharmacology from the University of Bristol, UK in 1977 and a PhD from the School of Pharmacy (now UCL) in London, UK in 1980. Today, Graham Collingridge is the Director of the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CRND), a Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. In 1998 he was elected a Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) and in 2001 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2019.
Professor 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.
The Brain Prize 2016 is also awarded to:
- Tim Bliss
- Richard Morris
