Dr C.R. House - Vice Provost

Vice Provost for the Keith B. Taylor Global Scholars Program (KBTGSP)

Associate Dean of Basic Sciences  (KBTGSP)
Associate Course Director for Neuroscience (KBTGSP)
Professor of Neuroscience (St. George’s International School of Medicine)
Co-director of the Office of University Publications (St. George’s University)
Co-director of the Office of University Communications (St. George’s University)

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Natural Philosophy (Glasgow University)
MSc Radiobiology (Birmingham University)
PhD Biophysics (Edinburgh University)
DSc Physiology (Edinburgh University)

Taught Subjects

Neuroscience (KBTGSP)

Research

My research interests focused initially on the transport of water and ions in biological systems.  This activity led to a major study of the literature summarized in my Physiological Society monograph Water Transport in Cells and Tissues, published by Edward Arnold in 1974.  Then I began to work on the release and actions of transmitters at synapses on gland cells.  Again, I wrote reviews of the literature to accompany my experimental work.  These solicited reviews appeared in Annual Reviews of Biophysics and Bioengineering and Biological Reviews.  My last major field of experimental work was devoted to a study of the role of second messengers in the activation of mammalian eggs during fertilization.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Honorary Member of The Physiological Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts