John Hughes (neuroscientist)

John Hughes
Born (1942-01-06) 6 January 1942
NationalityBritish
EducationKing's College London
Known forCo-discovery of enkephalins
AwardsLasker award (1978)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1993)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience, Pharmacology
InstitutionsYale School of Medicine
Aberdeen University
Imperial College London
University of Cambridge
PatronsHans Kosterlitz
Doctoral studentsFiona Marshall
Websitewww.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-john-hughes

John Hughes (born 6 January 1942) is a British neuroscientist who shared the 1978 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for the discovery of met-enkephalin and leu-enkephalin. This discovery demonstrated that opiate drugs exert their effects on the human brain by mimicking endogenous neurotransmitters, the opioid peptides.

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