David Eisner
Professor of Cardiac Physiology at Alliance Manchester Business School
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David Eisner (B.A. Cambridge, Natural Sciences, 1976; D.Phil Oxford, Physiology, 1979).
He spent the period 1980- 1990 in the Department of Physiology at University College London. From 1990-1999 he was Professor of Veterinary Biology at Liverpool University before moving to Manchester as Professor of Cardiac Physiology in October 1999.
He is currently President of The Physiological Society. He has received the Pfizer Prize for Biology (1985), the Wellcome Prize in Physiology (1988) and given the QR Murphy lecture at the University of Wisconsin (1992), the Reimer Lecture of the International Society for Heart Research (2008), the Dorothy Wedgwood Lecture for Young People (2008), the Peter Baker Memorial Lecture (2010), the Carmeliet-Coraboeuf-Weidmann Lecture of the European Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology (2013), The GL Brown Lecture of the Physiological Society (2014), The Bohuslav Ostadal Lecture of The International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences (2016), The Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award of The International Society for Heart Research (2017), the Annual Review Prize Lecture of The Physiological Society (2017), and the Naranjan Dhalla Lecture of The International Academy of Cardiovascualr Sciences (2017). He has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. He serves on the editorial board of Cell Calcium. From 2007-2016 he was the Editor in Chief of The Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology and, from 1997-2000, Chairman of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Physiology. He has been International Secretary of the Physiological Society and Chair of the British Society for Cardiovascular Research. He was Chair of the Working Group of Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology and has been President of both The Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS) and The International Society for Heart Research (European Section). He chaired the International Scientific Programme Committe for the 2013 meeting of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS). He has served on panels for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2001 and 2008 and REF2014.
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