Steve Wilson established an independent research group in 1992 and moved to UCL in 1998 as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. He was appointed Professor of Developmental Genetics in 2002 and Vice-Dean for Research in 2007, a post he filled until spring 2024 when he became University and Partnerships Director at the Crick.
Steve's lab uses zebrafish as a model system to study development of the brain. A major focus of his research is brain asymmetry, investigating how left-right differences arise during development, are encoded in neural circuits, and influence behaviour and nervous system function. They also examine eye formation, aiming to identify new genes involved in eye development and understand how these genes shape eye growth and structure, and finally, use zebrafish models to investigate the genetic and biological causes of various diseases and congenital conditions.
Steve was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2002, to EMBO in 2005 and to Academia Europaea in 2022. He is Deputy Editor in Chief for the journal Development and won the Remedios Caro Almeida prize in Developmental Neurobiology in 2009.
You can read an interview with Steve here.
