Stafford Lightman
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Education
Lightman was educated at Repton School[1] and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MA, MB BChir, PhD). He did his clinical training at Middlesex Hospital Medical SchoolScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
Career and research
Lightman started his research career working on catecholamine uptake mechanisms in Cambridge where, after completed his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital in London, he studied the role of opioid peptides and brain stem catecholamine pathways in the regulation of neurohypophysial hormone secretion.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He laterScript error: No such module "Unsubst".investigated the dynamics underlying stress hormone secretion.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Visiting Senior Scientist, Medical Research Council Neuro-Pharmacy Unit, Cambridge, 1980–81
- Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School and Honorary Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, St Mary's Hospital, 1981–82
- Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School:
- Reader in Medicine, 1982–88
- Professor of Clinical Neuroendocrinology, Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, 1988–92
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Neurology and Consultant Endocrinologist to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 1988-
- Chairman, Pituitary Foundation, 1995-
- Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 1998
- Editor-in-chief, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1989–96.
- Mortyn Jones Lecturer British Society for Neuroendocrinology, 2014
Honours and awards
Lightman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.[3]
Personal life
He is the son of Harold Lightman, Queen's Counsel (QC) and the brother of Sir Gavin Lightman, QC.[1]
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