| Stafford Lightman | |
| Birth Name: | Stafford Louis Lightman |
| Birth Date: | 7 September 1948 |
| Workplaces: | University of Bristol |
| Education: | Repton School |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cambridge |
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Stafford Louis Lightman (born 7 September 1948) has been Professor of Medicine, University of Bristol, since 1993. He was president of the British Neuroscience Association 2017–2019.[1]
Lightman was educated at Repton School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MA, MB BChir, PhD). He did his clinical training at Middlesex Hospital Medical School
Lightman started his research career working on catecholamine uptake mechanisms in Cambridge where, after completed his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital in London, he studied the role of opioid peptides and brain stem catecholamine pathways in the regulation of neurohypophysial hormone secretion. He laterinvestigated the dynamics underlying stress hormone secretion.
Lightman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.[2]
He is the son of Harold Lightman, Queen's Counsel (QC) and the brother of Sir Gavin Lightman, QC.