Stephanie Cragg

Stephanie J. Cragg is a British physiologist who is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. She holds a joint appointment as Professor in the University Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and as a Fellow, Director of Studies and Tutor for Medicine at the college Christ Church, Oxford.

Education and awards
Cragg studied Natural Sciences at Clare College, University of Cambridge, followed by a DPhil in neuropharmacology at the University of Oxford Department of Pharmacology. Her graduate supervisors were Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield (Oxford) and Dr Margaret Rice (New York University). She received postdoctoral awards of an E.P. Abraham Junior Research Fellowship at St. Cross College, an E.P. Abraham Research Fellowship at Keble College, a Beit Memorial Fellowship and then a Paton Research Fellowship.

Research
Her work focusses on understanding the functioning in health and disease of the brain circuits and cell types that are dysregulated in Parkinson's disease, addictions and other neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. This work focusses particularly on the regulation of dopaminergic transmission.

Cragg's work includes the study of how dopamine release in the striatum is regulated by other neuronal pathways and neuromodulators, including the neurotransmitters acetylcholine, GABA, adenosine, and dysregulation in Parkinson's disease. Her most cited work relates to the axonal regulation of dopamine transmission by acetylcholine, cholinergic interneurons and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs).

Scientific journals

 * Addiction Neuroscience
 * ACS Chemical Neuroscience
 * npj Parkinson's Disease

Societies
Engagement with scientific societies include:
 * President-Elect of the International Society for Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience (2022-2024)
 * College of Experts for Parkinson's UK

Keynote lectures

 * EJN Special Feature Plenary Lecture, FENS Forum 2018, Berlin, Germany
 * Keynote Speaker, ViDA 2020 - Virtual Dopamine Conference
 * Swedish Basal Ganglia Society 2022
 * Plenary Lecture, Dopamine 2022, Montreal, Canada