David Rubinsztein#
| Membership Number: | 5954 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-rubinsztein-fmedsci-frs |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5002-5263 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 UK Dementia Research Institute Group Leader
- 2014 - 2021 Academic Lead, Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery Institute, University Cambridge
- 2012 Deputy Director Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge
- 2012 - 2017 Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
- 2005 Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics, University of Cambridge
- 2003 - 2005 Reader in Molecular Neurogenetics, University of Cambridge
- 2002 - 2011 Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and Honorary Consultant, University of Cambridge
- 1998 - 2002 Glaxo Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and Honorary Consultant, University of Cambridge
- 1993 - 1998 Senior Registrar in Genetic Pathology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
- 1989 - 1992 PhD Student, University of Cape Town
Fields of Scholarship
- Signalling
- Cell biology
- Autophagy
- Drug discovery
- Neurodegeneration
Honours and Awards
- 1998-2002 Glaxo Wellcome Research Fellowship
- 2002-11 Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship
- 2004 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2007 Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Science 2007 (Royal College of Physicians)
- 2009 Spinoza Visiting Professorship (University of Amsterdam)
- 2011 Elected member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation)
- 2012 Wellcome Trust Principal Fellowship
- 2014 Selected as one of Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers 2014 in the categories Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Genetics (http://highlycited.com
).
- 2015 Kohn Lecture - Royal College of Pathologists
- 2015 Selected as one of Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers 2015 in the category Biology and Biochemistry (http://highlycited.com).
- 2015 4th highest cited cell biologist in Europe and Israel for articles published between 2007-2013 http://www.labtimes.org/labtimes/ranking/2015_05/index.lasso
- 2017 Awarded Thudichum Medal from Biochemical Society for outstanding contributions to neuroscience
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2018 The Roger de Spoelberch Prize for 2017
- 2018 Clarivates Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
- 2019 Clarivates Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
- 2020 15th Goudie Lecture and Medal (Pathological Society of Great Britain & Ireland)
- 2020 Clarivates Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
- 2021 Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Visiting Professorship to India
- 2021 Clarivates Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
