Seth Grant#
Membership Number: | 4806 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/professor-seth-grant |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Present Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2012 - 2016 Honorary Professor, Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia
- 2007 - 2016 Honorary Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2005 - 2006 John Cade Visiting Professor, Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 2003 - 2011 Principal Investigator, Academic Faculty, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
- 2000 - Present Personal Chair in Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1997 - 2002 Director Centre for Neuroscience, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1994 - 2000 Senior Scientist and Reader, Centre for Genome Research University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1992 - 1994 Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, NY, USA
- 1985 - 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroscience
- Behaviour
- Synaptic biology
- Proteomics
- Genetics
- Evolutionary biology
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Wesley College Foundation Medal, Wesley College, University of Sydney, Australia
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 2014 Kenneth B. Myer Award, Australia
- 2011 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
- 1985 Robertson Foundation Fellowship, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
- 1980 John Hunter Prize for highest academic achievement, Wesley College, Australia
- 1979 John Wait Scholarship
- 1977-1980 E. Trenchard Miller Memorial Scholarship
- 1977 Herbert Wilkinson Prize for Anatomy
- 1977 John Irvine Hunter Prize for Medicine and Anatomy, University of Sydney, Australia