Former Fellows
Dr Thora Karadottir
Area of Current Research Interests
The role of neuronal activity in myelin repair
Other Information
Extended Fellowship until September 2021.
Elected to membership of the Institute 2020.
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Dr Thora Karadottir
Fellow 2015-2021 Area of Current Research Interests The role of...
Professor Andrew J King
Fellow 1986-1991
Area of Current Research Interests
Neural basis for active listening through the investigation of how neurons in the hearing centres of the brain adapt to the statistics of sound stimulation, which constantly change in real-life environments, integrate other sensory and motor-related signals, and adjust to the abnormal auditory inputs resulting from hearing impairment.
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E.P. Abraham Cephalosporin Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences at Lincoln College, 1986-1989.
Visiting worker at the Eye Research Institute, Boston, Mass., June to October 1988.
Appointed Lecturer in Neurology & Medicine, Lincoln College, Oxford, 1989.
1990 Wellcome Prize in Physiology.
Elected Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, 1.2.91.
Fellowship renewed in 2000 to 2006.
Appointed a University Research Lecturer, 1996.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Appointed Reader in Auditory Physiology, 2000.
Elected to Senior Research Fellowship in Medical Sciences, Merton College, 2002.
Co-Director, Oxford Hearing and Balance Centre, 2003.
Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Oxford, 2004.
Member of the National Committee of the British Neuroscience Association, 2004-2007.
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, 2006.
Elected to a Supernumerary Fellowship, Merton College, Oxford, 2007.
Editorial Board, Journal of Neuroscience, 2009.
Member of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People Medical Advisory Panel, 2007-2011.
Director, Wellcome Trust 4 year doctoral training programme in Neuroscience, University of Oxford, 2010.
Chief Research Advisor, Deafness Research (UK), 2011/13.
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2011.
Editorial Board, Journal of Physiology, 2011.
Appointed Member of the Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship Committee, 2012.
Action on Hearing Loss PhD review panel, 2014.
Member of the Editorial Board, eLife, 2015.
Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship renewed, 2016.
Director of the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, 2016.
Elected as a Fellow of the Physiological Society, 2017.
Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2018.
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Professor Andrew J King
Fellow 1986-1991 Area of Current Research Interests Neural basis for...
Professor David G Kipling
Fellow 1995-2000
Area of Current Research Interests
Cancer biology: molecular control of cell proliferation and death. Specific interests in telomeres and telomerase, and p53 induced cell senescence.
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Appointed Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology, University of Wales College of Medicine, from 1.10.96.
Appointed Co-ordinator BBSRC’s “Strategic Initiative into Ageing”, May 1998 (for 4 years).
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2001
Awarded a personal chair in the Department of Pathology from 1.2.02.
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Professor David G Kipling
Fellow 1995-2000 Area of Current Research Interests Cancer biology: molecular...
Professor Kiaran Kirk
Fellow 1993-1996
Area of Current Research Interests
The physiology and biochemistry of the malaria parasite.
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Staines Medical Research Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford, 1.10.92 to 30.9.95.
Sub-Rector at Exeter College, Oxford, 1994/95.
Senior Research Fellow in Physiology at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1.10.95 to 31.12.97
Resigned fellowship on 31.5.96 on taking up the Chair of Biology at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, on 1.6.96. Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, from 1.12.96 – 31.5.09.
Fellowship continued until 31.12.96.
Awarded the Roche Medal of the Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2002.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003.
Elected to an Overseas Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, 2003.
Awarded Australian Society for Parasitology’s Bancroft-Mackerras Medal, 2008.
Director ANU Research School of Biology 2009-2014.
Dean, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, 2014-2017.
Elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, 2017.
Dean, ANU College of Science, 2017-present
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Professor Kiaran Kirk
Fellow 1993-1996 Area of Current Research Interests The physiology and...
Professor Josef Kittler
Fellow 2010-2016
Area of Current Research Interests
Miro family proteins as regulators of synaptic bioenergetics and a locus for mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disease
Other Information
Extended Fellowship to 31 December 2016.
Elected to membership of the Institute, 2016.
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Professor Josef Kittler
Fellow 2010-2016 Area of Current Research Interests Miro family proteins...
Professor Robert Klose
Fellow 2011-2019
Area of Current Research Interests
Understanding how CpG islands and chromatin regulate gene expression and development in mammals.
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Elected EMBO Young Investigator 2010.
Francis Crick lecture, 2015.
Elected to membership of the Institute 2016.
Named Chair and Professor of Genetics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, 2017.
Extended Fellowship to 31.12.19.
Elected member of the Institute, 2019.
Elected EMBO Member 2021
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Professor Robert Klose
Fellow 2011-2019 Area of Current Research Interests Understanding how CpG...
Professor David Komander
Fellow 2012-2018
Area of Current Research Interests
Bacterial interference with the ubiquitin system
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EMBO Young Investigator, 2011-2014.
EMBO member since 2014.
Extended Fellowship to 31.3.18.
Elected a member of the Institute, 2017.
Moved to Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia, 2018.
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Professor David Komander
Fellow 2012-2018 Area of Current Research Interests Bacterial interference with...
Professor Prem Kumar
Fellow 1995-2000
Area of Current Research Interests
Mechanisms of oxygen sensing and impact of hypoxia. The role of ion channels, neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in the maturation of oxygen sensing and the effect of hypoxia upon cardiorespiratory disease.
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Promoted to Senior Lecturer, 1.10.96.
Appointed Reader from 1.8.97.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2001.
Deputy Editor in Chief, Journal of Physiology, 2005.
Appointed Director of the Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, 2015.
Appointed Chair of the Physiological Society’s Publications Committee, 2015.
Connections Editor, Experimental Physiology 2015.
Physiological Society Otto Hutter Prizewinner 2016
Fellow, Physiological Society 2018.
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Professor Prem Kumar
Fellow 1995-2000 Area of Current Research Interests Mechanisms of oxygen...