Graham Collingridge (He/Him)

Professor Graham L. Collingridge, FRS, CBE, graduated with a BSc in Pharmacology at the University of Bristol (UK) in 1977. After postdoctoral positions in Vancouver (Canada) and Sydney (Australia) he returned to Bristol in 1983 to become a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Pharmacology. From 1990 to 1994 he was the Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Birmingham (UK) and since 1994 he has held the position of Professor of Neuroscience in Anatomy at the University of Bristol. He served as Chair of the Department of Anatomy from 1997 to 1999 and then became the founding Director of the MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity from 1999 to 2012. In 2016 he was a co- recipient of The Brain Prize (with Tim Bliss FRS and Richard Morris CBE, FRS) and in 2019 received a CBE for services to Biomedical Sciences. Collingridge served as the Director of the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases from 2019-2026. He is the inaugural holder of the Krembil Family Chair of Alzheimer’s Research and an Affiliated Scientist at the Krembil Research Institute. He is also a Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, Canada and a Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Faculty Appointments

Professor, Department of Physiology