Laboratory of David R. Hampson

Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, and Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, and Director, University of Toronto Collaborative Program in Neuroscience. Dr. Hampson is also the Chairman of the University of Toronto Radiation Protection Authority.

Research in our laboratory is focused on the study of the structure, function and biological roles of G-protein coupled receptors in the central nervous system, particularly the metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs). .....read more

David R. Hampson (Biographical Sketch)

David Hampson was born and raised in Rochester New York.  He obtained his B.Sc. degree from the State University of New York at Syracuse and Syracuse University, a M.Sc. degree in toxicology from Utah State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Alberta.  He then went to Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Neurology in Baltimore for a Postdoctoral Fellowship and to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland for a second Postdoctoral Fellowship.  He joined the faculty at the University of Toronto in 1989.