Name:
Professor Paul Insel FBPhS
Organisation:
University of California, San Diego
Year elected:
2017
Primary professional setting:
Dr Insel received an MD from the University of Michigan and post-MD training at Boston City Hospital/Harvard Medical Service, NIH and UC San Francisco (UCSF). He is currently Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine and Co-Director of the MD/PhD Training Program at UC San Deigo. Dr. Insel’s research efforts have focused on G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), including studies of G-proteins and their effectors, signaling compartmentation in caveolae and GPCR expression analyses. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of numerous scientific journals and is currently Editor, Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology; U.S. Senior Editor, British Journal of Pharmacology and co-Head of Faculty, Faculty of 1000Prime in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery. Dr. Insel holds a Doc. Hon Causa from the University of Paris, is a Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received awards from the American Physiological Society, Dutch Pharmacology Society and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.