David A. Eisner#
Membership Number: | 2457 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2007 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000- British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiac Physiology, The University of Manchester
- 1999 - Professor of Cardiac Physiology, Department of Medicine, The University of Manchester
- 1992-1999 Head of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences Department
- 1990-1999 Professor of Veterinary Biology, University of Liverpool
- 1989 1990 Reader in Physiology, University of London
- 1988 Research Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland
- 1986 1990 Wellcome Senior Lecturer, University College London
- 1982 1988 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland
- 1981 1986 University Lecturer, University College London
- 1979 1980 Postdoctoral Research Assistant Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge (with Prof I.M. Glynn)
Fields of Scholarship
- Physiology
- Cardiac muscle
- Calcium signalling
Honours and Awards
- 1975 Powell Prize and Senior Scholarship: King's College Cambridge
- 1985 Awarded Pfizer Prize for research in biology
- 1986 Wellcome Senior Lectureship
- 1988 Awarded Wellcome Prize (Physiological Society)
- 1992 Q.R. Murphy Lecturer, University of Wisconsin.
- 1999 Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2000 Founder Fellow International Society for Heart Research
- 2001 Fellow American Heart Association
- 2007 Member Academia Europa
- 2008 Reimer Lecturer International Society for Heart Research
- 2008 Hon Dorothy Wedgwood Lecture for Young People