Dimitri Kullmann
Introduction
Dimitri M. Kullmann (born 1958, London) is a professor of neurology at the UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, and is in charge of the Synaptopathies initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust. Kullmann is a member of the Queen Square Centre For Neuromuscular Disease. He is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Education
Kullmann studied Physiological Sciences (MA, DPhil) and Medicine (MB BS) at Oxford University and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London University.
Research
The Kullmann lab has contributed to the discovery and elucidation of silent synapses, glutamate spillover, tonic inhibition, long-term potentiation in interneurons, neurological channelopathies and Synaptopathies, gene therapy for epilepsy, and mechanisms of neural oscillations.
Awards and achievements
Kullmann was awarded the University Gold Medal in Medicine, London University, in 1986.
He was elected a Guarantor of Brain in 2000, and a Corresponding Fellow of the American Neurological Association in 2013.
Editorial work
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Brain. Kullmann is also a member of the editorial board of Neuron.