Biography

A Commissioner of the UK Drug Policy Commission, he helped to develop new evidence-based methods to define the harm of drugs of potential abuse.

President of the Association of British Science Writers.

Between 2003 and 2007 he was on leave while serving as Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council. He held the title of Waynflete Professor until 2007 and is now Professor of Neuroscience. He also holds Professorships at the University of Warwick and the Duke University - National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, where he is Chairman of Singapore's Neuroscience Research Partnership.

From 1976-1979 he held the Royal Society Locke Research Fellowship. In 1979 he was appointed Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Magdalen College, and from 1996-2003 he directed the Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Colin Blakemore studied Medical Sciences in Cambridge, England, and completed a PhD in Physiological Optics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968. From 1968-1979 has was a Demonstrator and then Lecturer in Physiology at Cambridge, and was also Director of Medical Studies at Downing College.