Our Faculty Mentors

Diane Lipscombe, Ph.D.

Professor of Neuroscience

Professor Lipscombe studies alternative splicing of voltage-gated calcium channels. Such research is relevant to basic mechanisms that control channel function in normal and in disease states, including chronic pain. Voltage-gated calcium channels, the gatekeepers of excitation-driven calcium entry in all excitable cells, control a diverse array of functions. Alternative splicing expands functional capabilities and contributes greatly to the expansion of the proteome required to support complex brain functions.

Ph.D. University College of London, 1986
Pharmacology

Sc.B. University College of London, 1982
Pharmacology

For more information, please see http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Diane_Lipscombe