Stephen "Steve" Dunnett DSc FMedSci FLSW (born 28 January 1950[1]) is a British neuroscientist, and among the most highly cited researchers in the neurosciences.
Dunnett then returned to Cambridge University in 1978 as a research student at Clare College and was awarded a PhD in experimental psychology in 1981.
[1][2] After a brief spell as a visiting research scientist at Lund University in 1981-2, Dunnett returned to Cambridge, he was a lecturer and reader in the Department of Experimental Psychology, Fellow of Clare College from 1984 onwards, and from 1992 to 1999 he was Director of Scientific Programmes at the Medical Research Council Centre for Brain Repair.
He directs the Brain Repair Group, focussing on development of novel cell based therapies for neurodegenerative disease.
In 1988, the British Psychological Society awarded Dunnett the Spearman Medal for outstanding published work by an early-career researcher.