Andrew Lumsden

Who is Andrew Lumsden?

Andrew Lumsden FRS FMedSci is an English neurobiologist, Professor of the University of London and founder in 2000 of the Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and King’s College London, and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Andrew Lumsden attended Kingswood School, Bath and graduated from St. Catharine's College in the University of Cambridge with Double First Class Honours in Natural Sciences. After visiting Yale University for two years as a Fulbright Scholar, he returned to England to complete his PhD in Developmental Biology at the University of London. He has held various lectureships at Guy’s Hospital Medical School and the United Medical Schools of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital before being made a full Professor of the University of London in 1989. He has been an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Miller Institute visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.