Stephen Watson
University Professor
Prof Watson studied Pharmacology in the University of Leeds before moving to the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge for doctoral studies on substance P receptor subtypes with Leslie Iversen. Following postdoctoral studies in Burroughs Wellcome in North Carolina, he moved the Department of Pharmacology in Oxford (1985) as a demonstrator and then as a Royal Society Research Fellow. In 2004, he took up the position of British Heart Foundation Chair in Cardiovascular Sciences and Cellular Pharmacology in the University of Birmingham. He leads the Birmingham Platelet Group which consists of between 30 and 35 researchers including 8 group leaders. The focus of Prof Watson’s research is on cell surface receptors and their signalling pathways in blood platelets. He is an editor of Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (TiPS), a former Editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology, and was Editor of the first 8 Editions of the TiPS Receptor Nomenclature Supplement which was the precursor of the British Journal of Pharmacology Receptor Booklet. Prof Watson was appointed to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2002.
