Roger John Keynes FMedSci (born 25 February 1951) is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 medical scientist. He is a Fellow of Trinity College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

, Cambridge, and a professor within the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Kenyes is the third son of four of Richard Keynes

Richard Keynes

Richard Darwin Keynes, CBE, FRS was a British physiologist. He was a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and edited accounts and illustrations of Darwin's famous voyage aboard the HMS Beagle into The Beagle Record: Selections From the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of...

 and his wife The Hon. Ann Pinsent Adrian, daughter of Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian

Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons....

 and his wife Hester (née Pinsent)

Hester Adrian

Hester Agnes Adrian, Baroness Adrian, DBE was a British mental health worker. In 1965, the year before her death, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions....

. Through his father he is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

. His elder brother Randal Keynes

Randal Keynes

Randal Hume Keynes, OBE, FLS is a British conservationist, author and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the author of the intimate exploration of his famous ancestry, Annie's Box, subtitled Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution , a book about the relationship between Darwin and his...

 is a conservationist and author, while his younger brother Simon Keynes

Simon Keynes

Simon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, Litt.D, FBA is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University.-Biography:...

is a historian and also a fellow of Trinity, as indeed was their father Richard.

External links

• http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?rjk10
• http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/keynes/
• http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/keynes/summary/neuro.php