Prof Steve Dunnett
Steve Dunnett is a behavioural neuroscientist with a primary research interest in understanding mechanisms of degeneration and repair in the brain, with a particular focus on cell transplantation in models of Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease.
With Professor Anne Rosser, I co-direct the Brain Repair group in the School of Biosciences – more detailed accounts of the group and our research programmes can be found here.
Education
1957-68 |
| Eltham College, London SE9 |
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1969-72 | BA(hons) | Churchill College, Cambridge | Mathematics |
1974-76 | DSW, CQSW | North London Polytechnic | Social Work |
1976 | MA | Churchill College, Cambridge |
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1978 | BSc(hons) | Birkbeck College, London | Psychology |
1981 | PhD | Clare College Cambridge | Experimental Psychology |
1999 | DSc | Cambridge University | Neurobiology |
Employment
1968-69 Office clerk, Muhlbach Papier, Geneva, Switzerland.
1972-78 Social worker, London Borough of Southwark.
1981-82 Visiting Research Scientist, University of Lund, Sweden.
1982-83 Wellcome Trust Mental Health Research Fellowship, Cambridge University.
1983-87 Demonstrator in Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.
1987-95 Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.
1992-99 Director of Scientific Programmes, MRC Centre for Brain Repair, Cambridge.
1995-99 Reader in Neurobiology, Cambridge University.
2000-05 Professorial Research Fellow, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales.
2005- Full Professor, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales.
Fellowships, Awards and Prizes
1969 Open Exhibition to Churchill College, Cambridge.
1978 Alexander Silberfield Prize (for top first) in the Faculty of Sciences, and Elaine Gladstone Prize (for top first) in Psychology, Birkbeck College, London.
1981 Fellowship, Clare College, Cambridge.
1988 Spearman medal of the British Psychological Society.
1989 Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine.
1992 Knight Visiting Professorship, University of Miami School of Medicine.
1998 Alfred Mayer medal of the British Neuropathological Society.
2001 Institute of Scientific Information, Philadelphia, 100 Most Highly Cited Researchers in the Neurosciences.
2001 Institute of Authors, London, Best science textbook of 2001 (second).
2002 Honorary Fellowship of the International Behavioural Neuroscience Society.
2003 Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
2008 The NNOXe Pharmaceuticals Award in The Behavioral and Systems Neurosciences, International Behavioural Neuroscience Society.