Roger Nicoll

Roger A. Nicoll is an American neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco where he is professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology. His research has contributed significantly to understanding synaptic physiology and pharmacology, particularly synaptic plasticity.

Biography Nicoll was born, on January 15, 1941 to Canadian-born parents in Camden,

His long-term research goal has been understanding how electrical activity re-configures brain connections. His work focuses on changes in nerve circuitry that may occur over time, a phenomenon known as plasticity, which has revealed new details of synaptic plasticity, and led contemporary knowledge of the basic mechanisms by which neurons communicate through neurotransmitters, in a process known as synaptic transmission.

Nicoll has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Physiology.

List of awards and honors 1987, 1997 and 2007 National Institutes of Health MERIT Award 1989 Alden Spencer Award 2012 Scolnick Prize for neuroscience - MIT 2014 Grass Lecture - Society for Neuroscience 2014 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience - Society for Neuroscience 2014 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize - Harvard University