Michael R. Duchen - Curriculum vitae#

Long CV

Address: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, tel: 44 207 679 3207 Day of birth: 13th December, 1952, Johannesburg, South Africa

EDUCATION

• William Ellis Grammar School, Highgate London London
• 1971 - 1975 Merton College Oxford
• 1975 - 1978 St.George's Hospital Medical School London
• 1981 - 1984 University College London London

QUALIFICATIONS

• 1975 B.A. (First class) Physiological Sciences, Oxford
• 1978 M.B., B.S.. (Distinction in Medicine), London University
• 1980 M.R.C.P. (U.K.)
• 1984 Ph.D. London University

DISTINCTIONS

• 1973 College prize, Merton College Oxford,(for performance in 2nd M.B.)
• 1975 Fowler prize, Merton College, (for performance in B.A. finals)
• 1974 Summer Scholarship to Weizmann Institute, Israel, (to work in Dept. of Membrane Biophysics with Prof. R. Caplan & Dr. H. Garty).
• 1978 Travelling Scholarship, St.George's Hospital Medical School, for elective study in the Transkei.
• 1978 Brackenbury prize for Medicine, St. George's Hospital,.
• 1981 1984 Bayliss Starling scholarship, University College London,
• 2007 Member of Academia Europaea

PRESENT APPOINTMENT

• 1999- Professor of Physiology, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

• 1978 1981 Appointments to Department of Medicine, St. George's Hospital, London.
• House Physician to Prof. T.Pilkington (Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Medicine), St. George's Hospital
• House Surgeon to Mr. R. Rowlandson (Cardiothoracic and General Surgery), King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst
• Senior House Officer, Dept of Neurology, Atkinson Morley Hospital, Wimbledon
• Senior House Officer, Infectious Diseases Unit, St. George's Hospital
• Senior House Officer, Dept of Cardiology, St. George's Hospital and the Brompton Hospital, London
• 1981 1984 M.R.C. Research Student and Bayliss-Starling Scholar, Physiology Department, University College London.
• 1984 1992 Royal Society '1983' University Research Fellow, and Honorary Research Fellow, Physiology Department, University College London
• 1989-1992 Lecturer, Physiology Department, University College London
• 1992-1999 Reader in cell Physiology, Physiology Department, University College London

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• The Physiological Society
• The American Society for Neuroscience
• The International Brain Research Organisation
• The Biophysical Society
• Biochemical Society
• British Society for Cardiovascular Medicine
• International Society for Neurochemistry (Honorary membership)
• European Calcium Society

EDITORIAL/REFEREEING

• Editorial Board of the Journal of Physiology, 1997-2005
• Advisory Board for 'Membranes and Cell Biology', 1997- . Moscow
• Advisory Board for Biochemical Journal, 2004-
• Editorial Board for PLoS Physiology, 2007-