David Colquhoun

David Colquhoun

FRS MAE
David Colquhoun; FRS MAE
	David Colquhoun in 2013
Born	19 July 1936; Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
Alma mater	University of Leeds (BSc); University of Edinburgh (PhD);
Known for	Single Ion channels; Criticism of pseudo-science; Statistics;
Awards	Humboldt Prize (1990)
	Scientific career
Fields	Pharmacology; Biophysics; Stochastic processes; Markov processes;
Institutions	Yale University; University of Southampton; University College London;
Thesis	The characterisation and adsorption of sensitising antibodies (1965)
Doctoral advisor	W.L.M. Perry; W.E. Brocklehurst
Website	dcscience.net

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.

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