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Colin Blakemore Profile Page

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First Name:	Colin
Last Name:	Blakemore
Occupation:	University Professor and Freelance science writer
Company:	Universities of Oxford & Warwick
City (Work):	Oxford
City (Home):	Oxford

Website (Work):	www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/directory/colin-blakemore
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Category of Membership:	PR/Press Office (Associate)
Broadcast, print or online:	Print
Interests:	Electronics/Computing/Communications Science Policy Biology/Health/Medicine Technology
Biography:	Colin Blakemore studied Medicine at Cambridge and did a PhD in Berkeley. He taught in Cambridge from 1968 and moved to Oxford in 1979. He was Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience. From 2003-7 he was Chief Executive of the MRC and he is now a Professor at Oxford and Warwick, and Chairman of the Neuroscience Research Partnership in Singapore. He appears frequently on TV and radio, is an occasional presenter and writes comment columns for the major newspapers. He has been President of the ABSW since 2004.

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