David Attwell
{{Short description|British neuroscientist}}
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David Attwell FRS, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Member of Academia Europaea, Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (born 1953[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U9805 ATTWELL, Prof. David Ian], Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014) is a British neuroscientist, and the Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London in the Faculty of Life Sciences.{{cite web |title=Prof David Attwell |url=https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal?upi=DIATT18 |website=Iris View Profile}}
Life
David Attwell studied physics and physiology (with tutorials from John Stein, who facilitated his learning neuroscience) at Magdalen College, Oxford, and earned his D.Phil. in neuroscience from the University of Oxford where he studied with Julian Jack but also worked in the lab of Denis Noble. He did postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley with Frank Werblin.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/npp/research/da|title=Professor David Attwell|publisher=University College London}}
His notable PhD students include Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Nicola Allen.
He has worked on a wide range of subjects including cardiac electrophysiology, the ion channels in rod and cone photoreceptors and early visual processing, the properties of glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and microglia), glutamate transporters, brain energy use and how it constrains the evolutionary "design" of the brain, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and control of brain blood flow especially at the capillary level by pericytes.
In April 2024, the British Heart Foundation announced that David Attwell had been appointed Director of its new Centre for Vascular Dementia Research.{{cite web|url=https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2024/april/prof-david-attwell-to-spearhead-bhf-uk-dri-centre-for-vascular-dementia-research|title=Prof Attwell to spearhead BHF UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research|publisher=British Heart Foundation}}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120625154230/http://www.academicmedicine.ac.uk/casestudies/davidattwell.aspx Professor David Attwell page on The Academy of Medical Sciences] (archived)
- [http://neurotree.org/neurotree/tree.php?pid=1859&fontsize=2&pnodecount=4&cnodecount=2 "David Attwell family tree"], Neurotree
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Category:British neuroscientists
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Members of Academia Europaea
Category:Academics of University College London
Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford