10 Facts About Stuart Cull-Candy

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Stuart Graham Cull-Candy was born on 2 November 1946 and is a British neuroscientist.

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Stuart Cull-Candy holds the Gaddum Chair of Pharmacology and a personal Chair in Neuroscience at University College London.

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Stuart Cull-Candy is a member of the Faculty of 1000 and holds a Royal Society - Wolfson Research position.

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Stuart Cull-Candy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Bedford College, London, then a Master of Science degree from University College London, and a PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1974.

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Stuart Cull-Candy was previously a Wellcome Trust Reader and then Professor of Pharmacology.

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Stuart Cull-Candy has been an Editorial Advisor to Nature, and served on the Editorial Boards of various journals including Neuron, The Journal of Physiology and as a Reviewing Editor on Journal of Neuroscience.

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Stuart Cull-Candy's research focuses on understanding molecular and functional properties of glutamate receptor channels underlying fast synaptic transmission in the brain.

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Stuart Cull-Candy has been a keen advocate of patch-clamp recording techniques combined with molecular methods for investigating central synaptic transmission.

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Stuart Cull-Candy was awarded the GL Brown Prize by the UK Physiological Society, and was appointed a Howard Hughes International Scholar in 1993.

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Stuart Cull-Candy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Pharmacological Society.