1. Dimitri Michael Kullmann was born on 1958 and is a British neurologist who is a professor of neurology at the UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, and leads the synaptopathies initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust.
11 Facts About Dimitri Kullmann
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Dimitri Kullmann was educated at the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle and studied physiology at Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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Dimitri Kullmann studied and trained at the University of Oxford and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School at the University of London.
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Dimitri Kullmann's research investigates how synapses function in health and disease.
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Dimitri Kullmann's laboratory helped to show how neurotransmitters activate different receptor subtypes in and around synapses, and resolved some controversies about the mechanisms of long-term changes in synaptic strength.
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Together with his colleagues, Dimitri Kullmann has used these insights to devise gene therapy strategies that could be used to treat intractable epilepsy.
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The Dimitri Kullmann lab has contributed to the discovery and elucidation of silent synapses, glutamate spillover, tonic inhibition, long-term potentiation in interneurons, neurological channelopathies and Synaptopathies, gene therapy for epilepsy, and mechanisms of neural oscillations.
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Dimitri Kullmann served as the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Brain between 2014 and 2020 and is on the editorial board of the journal Neuron.
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Dimitri Kullmann was awarded the University Gold Medal in Medicine by the University of London, in 1986.
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Dimitri Kullmann was elected a Guarantor of Brain in 2000, elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001, a Corresponding Fellow of the American Neurological Association in 2013, a member of the Academia Europaea in 2017 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018.
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Dimitri Kullmann was awarded the 2023 Basic Science Research Award by the American Epilepsy Society.