Andrew Crawford (neuroscientist)

Andrew Charles Crawford (born 1949)^[1] FRS is a British neuroscientist. He is a professor at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.^[2][3]

Andrew Crawford
Born	Andrew Charles Crawford (1949-01-12) 12 January 1949 (age 76)[1]
Awards	FRS (1990)
Scientific career
Fields	Cellular neuroscience Molecular neuroscience Computational neuroscience
Thesis	The relationship between spontaneous and evoked release of transmitter substances (1974)
Website	www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ac151

Education

Crawford was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Birmingham and Downing College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970.^[1] He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was awarded his PhD in 1974.^[1][4]

Research

Crawford is known for his studies of the mechanism of hearing in vertebrates. In 1976, he and Robert Fettiplace developed a method of recording the electrical responses of hair cells in the isolated cochlea of reptiles. He has also published a series of important papers on neuromuscular transmission in frogs and crabs.^[5]

Awards and honours

Crawford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990.^[5]