Sandip Patel

Sandip Patel obtained a BSc in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham in 1992, and a PhD in Pharmacology from Cambridge University in 1995 under the supervision of Prof. Colin W. Taylor.

He was awarded a Wellcome Trust “Prize” International Travel Fellowship in 1996. This allowed him to do post-doctoral work with Prof. Andrew P. Thomas, initially at Thomas Jefferson University and then at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers University) in the USA (1996-1998). He spent the last year of his fellowship (1999-2000) with Prof Antony Galione at Oxford University where Sandip developed his interests in NAADP.

Sandip was awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship in 2000 which allowed him to set up his own lab at Oxford. He also held the Hayward Junior Research Fellowship at Oriel College at this time. In 2001, he re-located the lab to University College London and was awarded a lectureship. Sandip was promoted to Reader in 2007 and Professor in 2011.

Sandip was Vice-chair of the Signalling Panel of Biochemical Society (2009-2012) and currently a member of the Grants advisory panel of Parkinson’s UK (2016-present). He is an associate Editor of Messenger (2012-present) and a member of the Editorial boards of Biology of the Cell (2003-2006), the Biochemical Journal (2004-2011) and Cell Calcium (2007-present). 

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) in 2013.