Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Chairman | Sarah Bray and William Henry Colledge (joint Heads of Department) |
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| Location | , |
| Affiliations | University of Cambridge |
| Website | www |
The Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, (PDN) is a part of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Research in PDN focuses on three main areas: Cellular and Systems Physiology, Developmental and Reproductive Biology, and Neuroscience and is currently headed by Sarah Bray and William Colledge. The department was formed on 1 January 2006, within the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge from the merger of the Departments of Anatomy and Physiology.[1] The department hosts the Centre for Trophoblast Research and has links with the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, and the Gurdon Institute
Senior staff in the department
As of 2014[update] the department has 25
- Horace Barlow FRS
- Andrea Brand FRS
- Dennis Bray
- Sarah Bray
- Nick Brown
- Graham Burton
- Roger Carpenter
- William Henry Colledge
- Andrew Crawford FRS
- Abigail Fowden
- Dino Giussani
- Roger Hardie FRS
- William A Harris FRS
- Christine Holt FRS
- Chris Huang
- Martin Johnson FRS
- Randall S Johnson
- Roger Keynes
- Jenny Morton
- Ole Paulsen
- Angela Roberts
- Wolfram Schultz FRS
- Azim Surani FRS
- Roger C Thomas FRS
- Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
History
Anatomy was taught within the university since its foundation in about 1231. Initially, the teaching was of a theoretical nature based on readings of the classical texts of
In 1870
Notable alumni
The Departments of Anatomy and Physiology (now fused to make PDN) and have been the home of many exceptional contributors to medical and physiological sciences and
- Edgar Adrian (1932)[2]
- Henry Dale (1936)[3]
- Alan Hodgkin (1963)[4]
- Andrew Huxley (1963)[5]
- Roger Y. Tsien (2008)[6]
- Robert G. Edwards (2010)[7]
