Steven Rose has a first degree in biochemistry from Cambridge, and a PhD in neurochemistry from London. Following post-doc periods in Oxford, Rome and London, in 1969 he was appointed Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group at the Open University, where he is now Emeritus Professor. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, Harvard, the University of Minnesota, the San Francisco Exploratorium, the Academica Sinica in Beijing and most recently at University College, London. For three years he was Joint Professor of Physick (medicine) at Gresham College, London with the feminist sociologist Hilary Rose. His research centres on the neurobiology of learning and memory. He is working on a potential therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease.
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