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Name
  
Stafford Lightman


Role
  
Professor


Education
  
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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Stafford Louis Lightman FRS FMedSci (born 7 September 1948) has been Professor of Medicine, University of Bristol, since 1993. He is president elect of the British Neuroscience Association.

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Education

  • Repton School
  • Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MA, MB BChir, PhD)
  • Middlesex Hospital Medical School

    • Career and Research

    Lightman started his research career working on catecholamine uptake mechanisms in Cambridge where, after completed his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital in London, he studied the role of opioid peptides and brain stem catecholamine pathways in the regulation of neurohypophysial hormone secretion. He laterinvestigated the dynamics underlying stress hormone secretion.

  • Visiting Senior Scientist, Medical Research Council Neuro-Pharmacy Unit, Cambridge, 1980–81
  • Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School and Honorary Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, St Mary's Hospital, 1981–82
  • Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School:
  • Reader in Medicine, 1982–88
  • Professor of Clinical Neuroendocrinology, Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, 1988–92
  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Neurology and Consultant Endocrinologist to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 1988-
  • Chairman, Pituitary Foundation, 1995-
  • Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 1998
  • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1989-96.
  • Mortyn Jones Lecturer British Society for Neuroendocrinology, 2014

    • Honours and awards

    Lightman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.

    Personal life

    He is the son of Harold Lightman, QC and the brother of Sir Gavin Lightman, QC.

    References

    Stafford Lightman Wikipedia
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