Dr John Winpenny

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3573

Email

jpw21@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

John is a Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Director of Inclusion in the School of Medicine, University of St Andrews.

After graduating with a BSc in Physiology (1988) from Dundee University, John completed a PhD (1992) at Dundee University on the effects of simple anaesthethic molecules and potassium ion channels in snail neurons.  He moved to Newcastle University to investigate the secretion of bicarbonate in pancreatic ducts and the chloride ion channel responsible for cystic fibrosis (1992-1996). During this period, he successful applied for his own Wellcome Trust Fellowship, which allowed him to work in the USA (1996-1999), before returning to a first lectureship position at Sunderland Pharmacy School (1999-2004). He moved to a lectureship (then promotion to senior lecturer) at the then new Medical School at the University of East Anglia (2004-2020), before returning (in 2020) to Scotland and to the School of Medicine at St Andrews.

Teaching

John has a very active role in teaching and management within the School of Medicine. John is the Year 2 lead for the Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) programme. He teaches Physiology throughout the currciulum of both the BSC Medicine and ScotGEM programmes. He is a personal adviser to BSc Medicine (Years 1-3) and ScotGEM MBChB students (Years 1-2). He is also a Portfolio Supervisor to ScotGEM students (Years 1-4).

He has been an External Examiner at several Institutions (including the Universities of Anglia Ruskin, Southampton, St Georges, Newcastle and Leeds).

Selected publications

• Open access

  Giardia secretome highlights secreted tenascins as a key component of pathogenesis

  Dubourg, A., Xia, D., Winpenny, J. P., Al Naimi, S., Bouzid, M., Sexton, D. W., Wastling, J. M., Hunter, P. R. & Tyler, K. M., Mar 2018, In: GigaScience. 7, 3, 13 p., giy003.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• To Mark or not to Mark in a Day.

  Winpenny, J. P. & Lightfoot, K., Jul 2017, 2 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Helping first year MED students adjust to University demands.

  Bunting, M., Bray, J., Hubble, D., Bowater, L. & Winpenny, J. P., Jul 2014, 1 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Research into HE students' use of the internet. HEA web residency project.

  Bowater, L., Winpenny, J. P. & Hubble, D., Apr 2014, 1 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Exploring new approaches to assessing attitudes and behaviours.

  Gibson, S. & Winpenny, J. P., Oct 2012, HEA Health Science Newsletter, 1 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• The anoctamin (TMEM16) gene family: calcium-activated chloride channels come of age

  Winpenny, J. P. & Gray, M. A., Feb 2012, In: Experimental Physiology. 97, 2, p. 175-6 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Physiological Society techniques workshops.

  Winpenny, J. P., Sept 2010, Physiology News, 80 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Bestrophin expression and function in the human pancreatic duct cell line, CFPAC-1

  Marsey, L. L. & Winpenny, J. P., 15 May 2009, In: The Journal of Physiology. 587, Pt 10, p. 2211-24 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The CLCA gene family: putative therapeutic target for respiratory diseases

  Winpenny, J. P., Marsey, L. L. & Sexton, D. W., Jun 2009, In: Inflammation & allergy drug targets. 8, 2, p. 146-60 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Lubiprostone

  Winpenny, J. P., May 2005, In: IDrugs : the investigational drugs journal. 8, 5, p. 416-22 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

 

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