Diane Lipscombe

Diane Lipscombe (born March 31, 1960) is a British neuroscientist who is a professor of neuroscience and the Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director of Brown University’s Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science. She served as the president of the Society for Neuroscience in 2019, the world’s largest organization for the study of the brain and nervous system.

Lipscombe was named one of ''Fast Company''’s most creative people in 2019 for her leadership at the Carney Institute, by encouraging collaboration to spur development of innovative treatments. Her lab studies the expression, regulation, and function of voltage-gated calcium channels in different regions of the nervous system. Lipscombe is interested in the role of voltage-gated calcium channels in chronic pain and neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. Since 1992, she has worked closely with undergraduate and graduate students at Brown, as well as postdoctoral trainees.

Lipscombe has been recognized for her teaching, mentoring and scholarship. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, and she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013. Provided by Wikipedia