David Colquhoun

David Colquhoun
David Colquhoun in 2013
Born (1936-07-19) 19 July 1936
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
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Known for
AwardsHumboldt Prize (1990)
Scientific career
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ThesisThe characterisation and adsorption of sensitising antibodies (1965)
Doctoral advisorW.L.M. Perry
W.E. Brocklehurst
Website

David Colquhoun FRS MAE (born 19 July 1936) is a British pharmacologist at University College London (UCL). 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 and an honorary fellow of UCL in 2004. Colquhoun runs the website DC's Improbable Science, which is critical of pseudoscience, particularly alternative medicine, and managerialism.