1. Russell Grant Foster was born on 1959 and is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute.
16 Facts About Russell Foster
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Russell Foster is a Nicholas Kurti Senior Fellow at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford.
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Russell Foster has written and co-authored over a hundred scientific publications.
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Russell Foster attended Heron Wood School in his native Aldershot and studied at the University of Bristol and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology in 1980.
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Russell Foster carried out postgraduate studies at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Brian Follett, and was awarded a PhD in 1984 for his thesis entitled An investigation of the extraretinal photoreceptors mediating photoperiodic induction in the Japanese quail.
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From 1988 to 1995 Russell Foster was a member of the National Science Foundation Center for Biological Rhythms at the University of Virginia, where he worked closely with Michael Menaker.
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Russell Foster later transferred his laboratory to the University of Oxford to engage in more translational research.
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Russell Foster hypothesized that circadian photoreception occurs with a small number of cones without an outer layer or that an unrecognised class of photoreceptive cells are present.
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In 1999, Russell Foster studied light entrainment on mice without cones or both rods and cones.
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Russell Foster concluded that rods and cones are unnecessary for entrainment to light, and that the murine eye contains additional photoreceptive cell types.
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Russell Foster is the co-author with writer and broadcaster Leon Kreitzman of two popular science books on circadian rhythms, Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing and Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive.
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Russell Foster has co-written a book titled Sleep: a Very Short Introduction.
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Russell Foster was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.
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Russell Foster was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to science.
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Russell Foster was awarded with The Daylight Award 2020 in the category Daylight Research, for his clinical studies in humans addressing important questions regarding light.
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Russell Foster has received recognition from around the world for his discovery of pRGCs:.