John Collinge#
| Membership Number: | 7528 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/prion |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2220-7566 |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Director, UCL Institute of Prion Diseases (founder Director)
- 2001 Professor of Neurology, UCL
- 1998 Director, MRC Prion Unit (founder Director)
- 2001 Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Director, National Prion Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London (founder Director)
- 2017 Visiting Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
- 2017 Visiting Senior Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
- 2001-2017 Founder and Head, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London
- 1994 – 2001 Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics and Head, Department of Neurogenetics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
- 1996 - 2000 Wellcome Principal Research Fellow in the Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London
- 1992 - 1996 Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in the Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Prion biology and prion diseases
- Neurodegeneration
- Alzheimer's disease
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Invited Lecture, Nobel Forum, Stockholm
- 2020 DZNE Lecture Award, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen
- 2018 Director’s Lectureship, National Institutes of Health, USA
- 2017 Visiting Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
- 2017 Visiting Senior Scientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
- 2013 Honorary Fellow, American Neurological Association
- 2011 Elected to Council of Royal Society
- 2008 Inaugural Senior Investigator of the Faculty, National Institute for Health Research
- 2008 Doctor of Science Honoris causa, University of Bristol
- 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2004 Commander, Order of the British Empire (CBE), HM The Queen
- 2004 Jean Hunter Prize, Royal College of Physicians
- 2001 Howard Taylor Ricketts Medal, University of Chicago
- 1999 Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists
- 1998 Fellow, Royal College of Physicians
- 1998 Founder Fellow, UK Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1997 Alfred Meyer Medal, British Neuropathological Society
- 1993 Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Science, Royal College of Physicians
- 1992 Linacre Medal, Royal College of Physicians
