David Colquhoun
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David Colquhoun FRS MAE (born 19 July 1936) is a British pharmacologist at University College London (UCL).[5] He has contributed to the general theory of receptor and synaptic mechanisms, and in particular the theory and practice of single ion channel function. He held the A.J. Clark chair of Pharmacology at UCL from 1985 to 2004, and was the Hon. Director of the Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985[6] and an honorary fellow of UCL in 2004. Colquhoun runs the website DC's Improbable Science,[2] which is critical of pseudoscience, particularly alternative medicine, and managerialism.[4]
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Born | (1936-07-19) 19 July 1936 (age 87)[1] Birkenhead, Cheshire, England |
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Awards | Humboldt Prize (1990) |
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Thesis | The characterisation and adsorption of sensitising antibodies (1965) |
Doctoral advisor | W.L.M. Perry W.E. Brocklehurst[citation needed] |
Website | dcscience |