Susan Diana Brain FBPhS is a professor of pharmacology at the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences at King's College London where she has worked since 1989.
[1] Brain completed a PhD in pharmacology at University College London in 1981.
In 1989 she took up a lectureship at King's College London, where she was promoted to Reader in 1993[2] and in 1998 she was made Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Cardiovascular Medicine, where since 2005 she has been Head of the Vascular Biology and Inflammation Section.
Brain's research investigates the role of sensory nerves in vascular inflammation.
[4] In her early career she discovered the Calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist (CGRP) as a potent microvascular vasodilator.