Graham Collingridge

CBE, FRS, PhD

Professor

Dept. of Physiology, University of Toronto

Senior Investigator

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario

Director

Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Univ. of Toronto

Krembil Family Chair

Alzheimer's Research.

Dr. Graham Collingridge is currently the Director of the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, the inaugural holder of the Krembil Family Chair of Alzheimer’s Research, and an Affiliated Scientist at the Krembil Research Institute. He is also a Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. In 2016 Dr. Collingridge was a co- recipient of The Brain Prize (with Tim Bliss FRS and Richard Morris CBE, FRS), and in 2019 received a CBE for services to Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Collingridge’s research focusses on studying the brain mechanisms that control the strength of brain cell connections, and how this fundamental property (known as synaptic plasticity) affects brain function.