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Honours for Iain Robinson
14 May 2010
The Geoffrey Harris Prize is an annual prize for neuroendocrinologists awarded by the European Society of Endocrinology. The prize will be presented at the annual European Congress of Endocrinology, where Professor Robinson will give one of the main lectures, in addition to two other lectures at future ESE scientific meetings.
There are 12 American Physiological Society (APS) Distinguished Lectureship Awards, each named after outstanding contributors to the disciplinary areas of physiology represented by the 12 APS Sections. The Solomon Berson Distinguished Lectureship is chosen by the American Physiological Society Endocrinology & Metabolism Section, as a representative of the best within the discipline. Lecturers present and are active participants at the Experimental Biology meeting.
Iain Robinson
Iain Robinson (pictured) joined the Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology at NIMR as a post-doctoral scientist in 1977. He progressed to become a programme leader in 1986, heading the neuroendocrine group within the Division of Neurophysiology. In 2001 he became head of the new Division of Molecular Neuroendocrinology and in 2006 became overall head of the Neurosciences group of divisions. He retired in September 2009.
Iain's research interests are in the hypothalamic control of the pituitary gland, including its development and molecular genetics, the regulation of hormone production and secretion, and the physiological consequences of hormone action. His achievements include the development of an automative continuous sampling technique, which he has used to study the release pattern of growth hormone in male and female rats and factors that influence it. He has been in the forefront of developmental work involved in establishing specific transgenic rat models with growth retardation, studying the importance of feedback regulation between pituitary and hypothalamus, the role of growth hormone-related peptide, and the regulation of the growth hormone gene. More recently he has been working to combine transgenics imaging and physiology, to see and manipulate specific pituitary cell populations in the living animal.
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