Name:
Professor Alasdair Gibb FBPhS
Organisation:
UCL
Year elected:
2016
Primary professional setting:
Academia
Alasdair Gibb graduated BSc and then PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. After postdoctoral research in Physiology at the Australian National University in Canberra, he came to the Pharmacology Department at UCL to work with Professor David Colquhoun. Alasdair was appointed Lecturer in Pharmacology at UCL in 1990. He has been Editor and Distributing Editor of the Journal of Physiology and Editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology and is currently an Editor of Molecular Pharmacology. His research interests are particularly in NMDA receptor subunit composition, pharmacology and functional properties. He is Postgraduate Tutor for PhD students in Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology and one of the coordinators of the Wellcome Trust Neuroscience PhD Programme at UCL. He lectures on the IBRO VLTP programme delivering neuroscience teaching to postgraduate students in developing countries and is lead organizer of the BPS General and Advanced Receptor Theory (GART) workshops.