Lumsden, Andrew

Autor: Lumsden, Andrew
Rok: 1947-
Oblast působnosti: vysokoškolští učitelé

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Anglický profesor neurobiologie, autor publikací z oboru.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Andrew Lumsden FRS FMedSci (born 22 January 1947) is an English neurobiologist, Professor of the University of London and founder in 2000 of the Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and King’s College London, and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization.Andrew Lumsden attended Kingswood School, Bath (as Andrew Sita-Lumsden) and graduated from St. Catharine's College in the University of Cambridge with Double First Class Honours in Natural Sciences. After visiting Yale University for two years as a Fulbright Scholar, he returned to England to complete his PhD in Developmental Biology at the University of London. He has held various lectureships at Guy’s Hospital Medical School and the United Medical Schools of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital before being made a full Professor of the University of London in 1989. He has been an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1993–1998) and a Miller Institute visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1994).Lumsden has served on the Medical Research Council Neurosciences and Mental Health Board and Grants Committee (1992—1998), the Wellcome Trust Neuroscience Funding Committee (1997—2000), and the Brain Functions Grant Review Committee of the Human Frontier Science Program (1998—2001). He has also served as editor of Development (1995—2007) and is co-founder of the on-line, open-access journal Neural Development. In addition, Andrew Lumsden is a co-Head of Section for Faculty of 1000.Andrew Lumsden has co-authored a book entitled The Developing Brain with Michael Brown and Roger Keynes