Lorne M. Mendell

 

 

Education

 

1961                     B.Sc. Mathematics and Physics       McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1965                     Ph.D. Neurophysiology                    Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Patrick Wall DM 1965-1968           Research Fellow in Physiology       Harvard Medical School with Elwood Henneman MD           

 

Academic Appointments

1968                     Instructor in Physiology                                  Harvard Medical School

1968-1973           Assistant Professor of Physiology                 Duke University Medical Center

1973-1979           Associate Professor of Physiology                              Duke University Medical Center

1980                     Professor of Physiology                                 Duke University Medical Center

1980-Present       Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior      SUNY Stony Brook

1980- Present      Professor of Physiology & Biophysics         SUNY Stony Brook (Joint Appointment)

1986- 2006          Chair, Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior   SUNY, Stony Brook

 

Concurrent Positions

1969                     Research Fellow in Physiology                      University of Edinburgh, R.M. Gaze, Ph.D.  

1976-77                              Research Fellow in Anatomy                          University College London, P.D. Wall, DM

1989-2004           Adjunct Professor of Physiology,                  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2006                     Visiting Professor                                            Institute for Child Health, University College London

 

Awards/ Honors 1961                                                                  Lt Governor’s Gold Medal, McGill University

1965                                                                  Elected to Sigma Xi, MIT

1966- 68                                                           NIH Post-doctoral Fellowship

1971-76                                                            Research Career Development Award -NINCDS

1976-77                                                            Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation Faculty Scholar Award

1988-95                                                            Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, NINDS

1995-2002                                                        Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, NINDS

1996                                                                  Appointed SUNY Distinguished Professor