Annette Dolphin

Early life and education Dolphin was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England in 1951. She was educated at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry in 1973, and the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London where she was awarded a PhD in 1977 for research on noradrenaline receptors.

Career and research Dolphin was a leader in the field of neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels. She was distinguished for her work on the regulation of calcium channel trafficking and function, and the modulation of that function by activation of G-protein coupled receptors. Her work on the control of calcium channel trafficking by auxiliary calcium channel subunits was particularly influential. She elucidated the topology and processing of this family of proteins. She inherited Lynch syndrome and was treated for three previous cancers throughout her life. She died due to a fourth, duodenal cancer.

She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1999 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. of the British Neuroscience Association from 2019 to 2021, leading the Association through the challenging years of the COVID-19 pandemic and facilitating its ongoing growth. In 2022 she was elected to become the 2024–2026 President of The Physiological Society. She was also elected to the Council of the Royal Society (2023–25).

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