About Anne Lingford-Hughes
Anne Lingford-Hughes was a psychiatrist and university teacher.
Anne Lingford-Hughes is a British psychiatrist who is Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College London. She works on addictions at the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Her research uses neuroimaging and pharmacology to understand the neurobiology of addiction.
Early life and education Lingford-Hughes grew up in Shrewsbury. Her third year supervisor moved to Cambridge, and asked if she wanted to do a doctorate. She took an interruption of studies, moved to Cambridge and started working on cholecystokinin receptors.
Lingford-Hughes obtained a PhD from University of Cambridge. Lingford-Hughes pioneered the use of positron emission tomography (PET) to characterise dopamine, GABA benzodiazepins and NK1 receptors in alcoholism and opiate dependence. In 2015, she was awarded the Academic Women in Psychiatry Award.
She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2026.
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