Graham Collingridge, FRS, CBE, is the Director of the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CRND), a Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. He has served as the President of the British Neuroscience Association and is currently the President of the Canadian Physiological Society. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Neuropharmacology from 1993 until 2010 and is currently a reviews editor for Molecular Brain. He is a Founder Fellow of the European DANA Alliance and a Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK). In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society. He serves on the scientific advisory board of Hello Bio and Brain Canada. Amongst the many recognitions for his research, Collingridge was, in 2016, a co-recipient with s Tim Bliss FRS and Richard Morris FRS of The Brain Prize, which is often regarded as the “Nobel Prize of Neuroscience." In 2019, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s birthday honours.