Nigel Calcutt

Nigel Calcutt, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Calcutt was spawned and bred in the Black Country of England and took both his B.Sc. in Zoology and Ph.D. Physiology and Pharmacology at Nottingham University, England. Following post-doctoral research at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London and at the University of California San Diego, he was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Pathology at UCSD in 1993. Dr. Calcutt...See more

Nigel Calcutt, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Calcutt was spawned and bred in the Black Country of England and took both his B.Sc. in Zoology and Ph.D. Physiology and Pharmacology at Nottingham University, England. Following post-doctoral research at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London and at the University of California San Diego, he was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Pathology at UCSD in 1993. Dr. Calcutt first began studying nerve damage caused by diabetes as an undergraduate, with a largely unsuccessful, but nevertheless entertaining, attempt to generate diabetic chickens. Undeterred by the paucity of pre-diabetic poultry, he has continued to investigate mechanisms of diabetic neuropathy and neuropathic pain throughout his career, with a particular interest in developing therapies than can be translated to clinical use. He is also a co-founder of the biotechnology company WinSanTor Inc. and the non-profit organization Diabetes Research Connection. See less