!!Michael R. Duchen - Curriculum vitae
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[Long CV|duchen_michael_ long_cv.pdf]
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__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 
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__EDUCATION__
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*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
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__QUALIFICATIONS__
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*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
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DISTINCTIONS
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*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 
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__PRESENT APPOINTMENT__
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*1999-  Professor of Physiology, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London
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__PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS__
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*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
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__MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES__
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*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 
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__EDITORIAL/REFEREEING__
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*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-