Professor of Neuropharmacology
School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Colin Davidson undertook a PhD with Jon Stamford in London where he used fast cyclic voltammetry in brain slices to examine acute and long-term effects of SSRIs on 5-HT efflux and presynaptic control of transmitter release. Moving to The University of St Andrews to do a postdoc, Colin worked with Eric Bowman and Verity Brown on the brain reward system, especially the role of accumbens dopamine in food reward. Moving to Duke University in North Carolina, Colin undertook a postdoc with the late Everett Ellinwood in the Psychiatry Department, examining novel pharmacotherapeutics for cocaine and methamphetamine abuse. Here he made use of models of addiction such as locomotor sensitisation, conditioned place preference and drug self-administration. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in Psyc
more...Colin Davidson undertook a PhD with Jon Stamford in London where he used fast cyclic voltammetry in brain slices to examine acute and long-term effects of SSRIs on 5-HT efflux and presynaptic control of transmitter release. Moving to The University of St Andrews to do a postdoc, Colin worked with Eric Bowman and Verity Brown on the brain reward system, especially the role of accumbens dopamine in food reward. Moving to Duke University in North Carolina, Colin undertook a postdoc with the late Everett Ellinwood in the Psychiatry Department, examining novel pharmacotherapeutics for cocaine and methamphetamine abuse. Here he made use of models of addiction such as locomotor sensitisation, conditioned place preference and drug self-administration. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in Psychiatry in 2000 and stayed at Duke until 2007. Moving back to the UK Colin worked in the School of Psychology at the University of Leicester, working closely with Andrew Young and Claire Gibson on an in vitro model of stroke. In 2010 Colin moved to St George’s University of London as a Senior Lecturer in Neuropharmacology where he developed an interest in legal highs and worked closely with Fabrizio Schifano (University of Hertfordshire) and Jolanta Opacko-Juffry (University of Roehampton).
Ph.D. Neuropharmacology, The London Hospital Medical college, Queen Mary’s & Westfield University, University of London, 1996.
Pg.Dip. Neuroscience, The Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, University of Edinburgh, 1990
Pg.Cert. Healthcare and Biomedical Education, St George’s University of London, 2012
B.Sc. Biological Sciences (Hons Psychology), University of Edinburgh, 1989
