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andrew lumsden english neurobiology mrc london guy 's hospital medical school university of california , centre berkeley for developmental neurobiology , king 's college andrew lumsden.jpg andrew lumsden -lrb- scientist -rrb-
 andrew lumsden st london catharine 's college , cambridge ; university of
andrew lumsden -lrb- scientist -rrb-

andrew lumsden frs fmedsci -lrb- born 22 january 1947 -rrb- is an english neurobiologist , professor of the university of london and founder in 2000 of the medical research council centre for developmental neurobiology at king 's college london .
he is a fellow of the royal society , the academy of medical sciences , and king 's college london , and a member of the european molecular biology organization .
andrew lumsden attended kingswood school , bath -lrb- as andrew sita-lumsden -rrb- and graduated from st. catharine 's college in the university of cambridge with double first class honours in natural sciences .
after visiting yale university for two years as a fulbright scholar , he returned to england to complete his phd in developmental biology at the university of london .
he has held various lectureships at guy 's hospital medical school and the united medical schools of guy 's and st. thomas ' hospital before being made a full professor of the university of london in 1989 .
he has been an international scholar of the howard hughes medical institute -lrb- 1993 -- 1998 -rrb- and a miller institute visiting professor at the university of california , berkeley -lrb- 1994 -rrb- .
lumsden has served on the medical research council neurosciences and mental health board and grants committee -lrb- 1992 -- 1998 -rrb- , the wellcome trust neuroscience funding committee -lrb- 1997 -- 2000 -rrb- , and the brain functions grant review committee of the human frontier science program -lrb- 1998 -- 2001 -rrb- .
he has also served as editor of `` development '' -lrb- 1995 -- 2007 -rrb- and is co-founder of the on-line , open-access journal `` neural development '' .
in addition , andrew lumsden is a co-head of section for faculty of 1000 .
andrew lumsden has co-authored a book entitled `` the developing brain '' with michael brown and roger keynes
