Timothy Bliss#
Membership Number: | 3751 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2014 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - 2013 Adjunct Professor, Seoul National University
- 2006 - present Visiting Member, Division of Neurophysiology, NIMR
- 1996 - 2006 Head, Neurosciences Group, NIMR
- 1990 - present Visiting Professor, University College London
- 1988 - 2006 Head, Division of Neurophysiology, NIMR
- 1967 - 2006 Member, Senior Member of Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council, National Institute for Medical Research
Fields of Scholarship
- Synaptic transmission
- Synaptic plasticity
- Synaptic physiology
- Memory mechanisms
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Bristol Myers Squibb Award for Neuroscience (with E. Kandel)
- 1994 Feldberg Prize
- 1994 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1998 Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2003 Annual Award for Contributions to British Neuroscience, British Neuroscience Society
- 2012 Croonian Prize Lecture, Royal Society (this is the Society’s principal lecture in the biological sciences, given annually since 1738)
- 2013 Ipsen Prize for Neuronal Plasticity; Hon LlD Dalhousie University
- 2014 Hon DSc University of Hertfordshire
- 2016 Brain Prize