Stuart Cull-Candy

Stuart Cull-Candy FRS FMedSci
Professor Stuart Cull-Candy
Born	Stuart Graham Cull-Candy (1946-11-02) 2 November 1946 (age 78)
Alma mater	Royal Holloway, University of London University College London University of Glasgow
Awards	Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
Institutions	University College London University of Lund
Thesis	Pharmacology and Toxicology of Locust Muscle. (1974)
Notable students	Angus Silver (postdoc)
Website	www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/departments/npp/people/iris-profiles/cull-candy-stuart

Stuart Graham Cull-Candy (born 1946) is a British neuroscientist.^[1] He holds the Gaddum Chair of Pharmacology and a personal Chair in Neuroscience at University College London.^[2] He is also a member of the Faculty of 1000 and held a Royal Society - Wolfson Research position.^[3]

Early life and education

Cull-Candy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Royal Holloway, University of London,^[4] then a Master of Science degree from University College London (1971), and a PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1974.^[5]

Career and research

After working as a Royal Society Exchange Fellow at the University of Lund with Prof Stephen Thesleff, he was awarded a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship to work in UCL's Biophysics Department with Sir Bernard Katz and Prof Ricardo Miledi. He later moved to UCL's Pharmacology Department as a Wellcome Trust Reader and then Professor of Pharmacology.^[2][6] He 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.^{[citation needed]} Currently^[when?] he is a member of the Royal Society University Research Fellowships Committee, and the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships panel.

His research focuses on understanding molecular and functional properties of glutamate receptor channels underlying fast synaptic transmission in the brain. His research activities also include the study of ionotropic γ-aminobutyric acid and glutamate receptor signalling and regulation of neurotransmitter release. He has been a keen advocate of patch-clamp recording techniques combined with molecular methods for investigating central synaptic transmission.^[7]

Awards and honours

He was awarded the GL Brown Prize by the UK Physiological Society, and was appointed a Howard Hughes International Scholar in 1993 (one of only 20 in the UK). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002,^[8] a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2004,^[9] an Honorary Fellow of the Physiological Society^[10] and a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society.^[11]

References

1. "Prof Stuart G Cull-Candy, FRS, FMedSci Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Stuart G Cull-Candy, FRS, FMedSci Profile". Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
2. "Iris View Profile". Iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
3. "Stuart Cull-Candy: Advisory Board Member in Neuronal Signaling Mechanisms - F1000Prime". f1000.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
4. Cull-Candy, Stuart. "Alumni". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
5. "Cull-Candy, Prof. Stuart Graham, (born 2 Nov. 1946), Gaddum Chair of Pharmacology and Professor of Neuroscience, University College London, since 2006". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U43402. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
6. Parker, Ian; Slater, Clarke; Cull-Candy, Stuart; Vincent, Angela (December 2021). "Ricardo Miledi. 15 September 1927—18 December 2017". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 71: 423–450. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2021.0020. ISSN 0080-4606.
7. "Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
8. "Stuart Cull-Candy". Royalsociety.org. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
9. "Ordinary Fellows Directory | Academy of Medical Sciences | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
10. "Honorary Members Archive - The Physiological Society". www.physoc.org. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
11. "Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2017.