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Diane Lipscombe
ORCID 0000-0002-7146-9119
POSITIONS HELD
Director
Brown Institute for Brain Sciences
Adjunct Professor
AGeorge and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience, University of Rhode Island
Co-Director
Center for Neurobiology of Cells and Circuits, Brown Institute for Brain Science
Visiting Assistant Professor and Consultant
Miles Pharmaceuticals, West Haven, CT
Interim Director
Brown Institute for Brain Science
Visiting Assistant Professor
The Centers for Genome Research and for Neuroscience, Edinburgh University, UK
Professor of Neuroscience (with tenure)
Brown University
Brown University
AWARDS
2013
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate and or Postdoctoral Teaching and Mentoring in the Biological
2013
President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance, Brown University
2010
Faculty Mentorship Award, Graduate School, Brown University
2009
Harriet W Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching at Brown University
2001
NIH K02 Research Career Development Award
EDUCATION
1/1/1990
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University Medical School
1/1/1988
Postdoctoral Associate
Yale University of Medicine
1/1/1986
Ph.D.
University College London
1/1/1982
BSc
University College London
Publications
Bruno Pradier, Hye Bin Shin, Duk Soo Kim, Robyn St. Laurent, Diane Lipscombe, Julie A. Kauer
Long-Term Depression Induced by Optogenetically Driven Nociceptive Inputs to Trigeminal Nucleus Caudalis or Headache Triggers
The Journal of Neuroscience 38
(2018)
Diane Lipscombe, Eduardo Javier Lopez-Soto
Protected by a Fox
Neuron 98
(2018)
Summer E. Allen, Cecilia P. Toro, Arturo Andrade, Eduardo J. López-Soto, Sylvia Denome, Diane Lipscombe
Cell-Specific RNA Binding Protein Rbfox2 Regulates CaV2.2 mRNA Exon Composition and CaV2.2 Current Size
eneuro 4
(2017)
I graduated with a PhD in Pharmacology from University College London in 1986 and then studied with Richard W Tsien as a postdoctoral associate at Yale University School of Medicine and subsequently at Stanford University Medical School. In 1992 I joined the Department of Neuroscience at Brown. I study the expression, regulation, and function of voltage-gated calcium ion channels in different regions of the nervous system. I am also interested in their role in chronic pain and psychiatric disorders. I work closely with undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral trainees. I direct the Brown Institute for Brain Science and Direct NIH funded Predoctoral Training Programs in Neuroscience.