Stephen Wilson - Curriculum Vitae#

1. Current appointment

Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Life Sciences and Professor of Developmental Genetics, University College London (UCL)

2. Education/Qualifications

• 1981 - 1984 B.Sc. (Honours First Class) in Biological Sciences. University of Leicester, UK
  
• 1984 - 1988 PhD in Neurobiology, University of London. Supervisor – Nigel Holder

3. Previous appointments

• 1988 - 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Michigan
  
• 1991 - 1994 SERC Advanced Research Fellow, Developmental Biology Research Centre, Kings College London
  
• 1994 - 1997 Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Developmental Biology Research Centre, Kings College London
  
• 1998 - 1999 Lecturer, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL
  
• 1999 - 2002 Reader in Developmental Biology, UCL
  
• 1998 - 2004 Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, UCL
  
• 2002 Chair of Developmental Genetics, UCL
  
• 2006 - 2011 Deputy head of Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL

4. Professional Societies

• British Neuroscience Association
  
• Biochemical Society
  
• British Society for Developmental Biology
  
• Society for Neuroscience
  
• EMBO (elected member)
  
• Academy of Medical Sciences (elected fellow)
  
• Genetics Society
  
• Royal Society of Biology (elected fellow)

5. Funding (most recent only)

September 2022 - August 2030. Wellcome Discovery Award with Isaac Bianco. Brain asymmetry: from genes and developmental mechanisms to circuits and behaviour.

March 2020-Feb 2025. MRC Programme Grant with Dr Gaia Gestri (MR/T020164/1). Resolving the basis of phenotypically variable hereditary abnormalities of eye formation.

Jan 2015-Dec 2021. Wellcome Trust Investigator Award 104682/Z/14/Z. How is brain asymmetry established and what is it good for?