Roger Nicoll

Nicoll was born, on January 15, 1941 to Canadian-born parents in Camden, and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where his father was a physicist at RCA. He was diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age. == Education ==

He studied biology and chemistry at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, before shifting to medical studies at University of Rochester School of Medicine. Following his second year at medical school, Nicoll joined National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Neurophysiology director Gian Salmoraghi's lab at St. Elizabeths Hospital, in Washington, D.C. to study electrophysiology for a year. After earning his M.D at Rochester in 1968, he interned at University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. == Career ==

Following his internship, Nicoll returned to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a researcher. His long-term research goal has been understanding how electrical activity re-configures brain connections. His work focuses on changes in nerve circuitry that may occur over time, a phenomenon known as plasticity, which has revealed new details of synaptic plasticity, and led contemporary knowledge of the basic mechanisms by which neurons communicate through neurotransmitters, in a process known as synaptic transmission. Nicoll has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Physiology. == List of awards and honors ==

• 1987, 1997 and 2007 National Institutes of Health MERIT Award • 1989 Alden Spencer Award • 2012 Scolnick Prize for neuroscience - MIT • 2014 Grass Lecture - Society for Neuroscience • 2014 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience - Society for Neuroscience • 2014 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize - Harvard University == References ==