Professor Antony Galione FRS FMedSci
Antony Galione was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and received a BA in Natural Sciences in 1985 and his PhD in 1989. He held The Staines Medical Research Fellowship at Exeter College from 1995 to 1998. He was Head of the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, from 2006-2015, and Chair of the Heads of UK Pharmacology Departments from 2014-2017. His research has pioneered the elucidation of novel signal transduction pathways regulating calcium signalling orchestrated by new second messenger molecules, termed cyclic ADP-ribose and NAADP. Using pharmacological, biochemical and physiological approaches, he showed that messengers and their signalling pathways control many fundamental cellular processes including synaptic plasticity, membrane excitability, excitation-contraction coupling, immune cell function, and both endocrine and exocrine secretory mechanisms.
Professor Galione was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016. He received the 2001 Novartis Prize of the British Pharmacological Society for his scientific contributions to pharmacology. He is also a scientific co-founder of IntraBio Inc, a late-stage pharmaceutical company working in the areas of rare and neurodegenerative diseases. He has published over 200 scientific papers including several in Nature, Science and Cell.
