Suzanne Dickson


Suzanne L Dickson is a neurobiologist and Professor of Neuroendocrinology in the Department of Physiology within the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a B.Sc. in Pharmacology. Her doctorate research was undertaken at the Babraham Institute with Professor Gareth Leng and she graduated with a Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology from the University of Cambridge in 1993. She is also an Honorary Professor in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
She is Secretary and Executive Committee member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Career

Dickson works within many European Union and international organisations and societies to promote neuroendocrinological research, facilitate grant funding and training of Early Career Scientists. She is noted for her research into the neurobiology of appetite.
She was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy at King's College London in 1994. In 1996 she joined the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge as Lecturer and was subsequently promoted to Senior lecturer. During this time she was a Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Her research aims to unravel neurobiological pathways that respond to orexigenic signals, such as the hormone, ghrelin, and that drive feeding behaviours, not only food intake but also food choice, food anticipation, food reward and food motivation. This work involves studies in rats and transgenic mice and includes behavioural tasks, viral vector mapping, chemogenetics and RNAscope.
Dickson is President and Executive Committee member of board of the European Brain Council. She is also Secretary and Executive Board member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Publications

Dickson has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters to her name

Editorial Boards

Scientific Boards

  • President of EBC and Board member
  • Secretary of ECNP and ECNP Executive Committee member
  • Chair of the ECNP Committee for the Workshop for Early Career Scientists in Europe and committee member
  • Chair of the Programme Committee for the International Congress of Neuroendocrinology ICN2022
  • Member of the Executive Committee for SSIB
  • Member of the Programme Committee of SSIB
  • Member of the Executive Council for the International Federation for Neuroendocrinology
  • Member of the ECNP Networks committee
  • Member of the ECNP SAP committee
  • Founder of the https://www.ecnp.eu/research-innovation/ECNP-networks/List-ECNP-Networks/Nutrition, including chair and co-chair
  • Founder and co-chair of BRAINFOOD, an EBRA cluster of the European Brain Council.
  • Member of the Board of FENS

Grant and Administrative Boards