Claudio Cuello#

• 2024 - 2025 Affiliated Member, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• 2005 - 2025 Visiting Professor (longest known renewal), University of Oxford, England
• 2013 - 2018 Toh Chin Chye Professor, Molecular Biology & Medicine, National University of Singapore
• 2010 - 2014 Chair, Brain@McGill Committee, McGill University, Canada
• 2008 - 2014 Senator, McGill University, Canada
• 2002 - 2012 Adjunct Professor, Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
• 2005-2010 Lincoln College Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• 2003 - present Inaugural Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair of Pharmacology, McGill University, Canada
• 1985 - present Associate Member, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Anatomy & Cell Biology, McGill University, Canada
• 1985-2000 Professor & Chair, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada.
• 1978-1985 Lecturer & Tenured Lecturer, Neuropharmacology & Neuroanatomy, Department of Pharmacology & Department of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford, UK
• 1978-1985 Medical Tutor & E.P. Abraham Senior Research Fellow, Lincoln College (founded in 1427), University of Oxford, UK
• 1975-1978 MRC Staff Scientist, Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge University
• 1974 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy & Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Catecholamine research, discovery of dendritic release of dopamine
• Microlithium experimental therapy and brain amyloid pathology
• Identification of CNS pathway containing novel neuropeptides
• Bi-specific monoclonal antibodies
• Novel brain NGF metabolic pathway
• Experimental microlithium therapy
• Documentation via immunohistodensity, of the presence of classical cholinergic synapses in cerebral cortex
• Absence of Substance P in sensory fibres of the spinal cord of individuals with familial dysautonomia
• Generation of cortical synapses in the adult brain induced by exogenous NGF
• Novel rat transgenic models exhibiting Alzheimer-like amyloid and tau pathologies
• Retrograde degeneration of the cholinergic nucleus basalis
• NGF metabolic blood biomarkers predictive of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease
• Dysregulation of the NGF metabolic pathway in Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome
• Elucidated sensory antidromic vasodilatory release of Substance P

• 2023 Foreign Member, Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain, in the name of His Majesty King Felipe VI , July 4th 2023, Madrid, Spain
• 2022 Guest of Honor, 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Institute of Cell Biology, renamed The Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience "Professor E. deRobertis," after the discoverer of synaptic vesicles, first mentor of Prof. Cuello.
• 2022 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2022 Visiting Researcher, Leloir Institute Foundation (established by Chemistry Nobel Laureate Luis Federico Leloir, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2018 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, London UK, the only overseas fellow elected in that year
• 2015 The Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, granted by the General Governor of Canada
• 2015 Premio Raices (Roots Award), Argentine Ministry of Science and Technology, for international cooperation
• 2014 Profesor Honoris Causa, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2014 Chancellor’s Award in Neurosciences, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, USA (past winners were Nobel laureates Francis Crick and Erik Kandel
• 2013 Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine & Surgery (2013), Murcia, Spain (an academy tracing its origins to the King “Alfonso el Sabio”)
• 2012 Voted in as one of 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians
• 2010 Officer of the Order of Canada, the second highest recognition given by the General Governor of Canada in the name of Queen Elizabeth II for “nation building contributions,” for contributions to academia (building one of the most productive departments of pharmacology in North America), contributions to neuroscience, Alzheimer’s research, and for the development of biotechnology
• 2009 JSWCNS Award for the most innovative animal model, Alzheimer’s Disease/Parkinson’s Disease 9th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2002 Named Highly Cited Neuroscientist, by the ISI (Institute of Scientific Information), USA
• 2000 Honoris Causa Medical Doctor, University of Kuopio, Finland
• 1999 - 2001 Iberdrola Visiting Professor, Iberdrola University, Madrid, Spain
• 1999 Honorary Founding Member, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Cuyo, Argentina
• 1997 Novartis Senior Research Award in Pharmacology, The Pharmacological Society of Canada
• 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Sciences, FRSC
• 1995 Heinz Lehman Award, Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology
• 1994 Grass Foundation Traveling Scientist Award, The Newfoundland Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• 1993 Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge University, England
• 1993 Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 1993 Consultant, United Nations Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, Trieste, Italy
• 1993 Honorary Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy & Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1992 Honorary Citizen of New Orleans City, USA, granted by the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
• 1992 Distinguished Lecturer in Neuroscience, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, USA
• 1992 Honorary Professor, Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences, Chang Chun, China
• 1992 Selected to present the Dr. S.T. Huang Chan Memorial Lecture, Department of Anatomy, Hong Kong University
• 1990 Selected to present the Pfizer Lecture in Neuroscience, Göteborg University, Sweden
• 1987 Selected to present the Pfizer Traveling Fellow Lecture, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Canada
• 1986 Selected to present the Inaugural Jerzy Olzewsky Lecture in Neuroanatomy, Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada
• 1983 Selected to present the Juan March Foundation Lecture, Juan March Foundation, Spain
• 1981 Robert Feulgen Prize, Gesellschaft für Histochemie, Germany
• 1979 Professor Arturo Rosenblueth Visiting Award, the Grass Foundation (USA), Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Mexico
• 1968 Estela A. de Goytia Prize, Argentinean Association for the Advancement of Science

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