David Attwell#
| Membership Number: | 4292 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/npp/da |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 Jodrell Professor of Physiology, University College London
- 1991 Professor, Department of Physiology, University College London
- 1988 Reader, Department of Physiology, University College London
- 1984 - 1989 Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1981 - 1988 Lecturer, Department of Physiology, University College London
- 1980 - 1981 Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 1979 - 1980 Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
- 1977 - 1979 Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 1974 - 1977 Medical Research Council Scholar, Physiology, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuron-glial interactions
- Brain energy use
- Cerebral blood flow
- Glutamate transport
- Ischaemia
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Fondation Ipsen Prize for Neuroenergetics
- 2011 Kenneth Myer Medal, Australia
- 2001 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2000 Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1986 Sharpey-Schafer Medal of the Physiological Society
- 1979 Gotch Prize: Oxford University Prize for best thesis in Biological Sciences
- 1974 Scott Prize for Physics: Oxford University Prize for best 1st in Finals
