Jeffry B. Lansman (born 1951, in Miami Beach, Florida) is an American neuroscientist, professor emeritus of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology in the School of Medicine of the University of California, San Francisco, and member of UCSF's Weill Institute for Neurosciences and Cardiovascular Research Institute.
Lansman studied biology at Purchase College (Bachelor of Science), and Tufts University (Master of Science) and subsequently received a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysicd at UCLA School of Medicine under Susumu Hagiwara.
He went on to complete postdoctoral training at the Yale School of Medicine and the Physiological Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
[1] Lansman is known for his research on calcium channels in nerve and muscle and their role in normal physiology and in disease.
His early work on marine invertebrates discovered the hyperpolarization-activated ion channels that produce the rhythmic beating of the heart.