John Frederick Stein (born February 1941) is a British physiologist and academic. He is Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His research has focussed on sensorimotor control, the cerebellum, deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease and the neurological basis of dyslexia. Stein was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014.
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Biography
Stein was born in February 1941. He was educated at Winchester College. He read Animal Physiology at New College, Oxford, followed by an MSc in Neural Control of Respiration in the Oxford University Laboratory of Physiology. He completed Clinical Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London, followed by a specialism in Neurology. He was appointed Tutor in Medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1970, retiring from that post in 2008. Stein is the brother of the chef and restaurateur Rick Stein, the father of artist Lucy Stein and the uncle of DJ Judge Jules.
Stein is the chair of the Dyslexia Research Trust. He is also a trustee of the Institute for Food, Brain and Behaviour, now rebranded as Think Through Nutrition, and is Chair of the Institute's Science Advisory Council.