David Anthony Brown is Professor of Pharmacology

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

 at University College London

University College London

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, having joined the department in April 1987 and served as Head of Department from October 1987 to April 2002.

He graduated from University College with a BSc degree in Chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

, Zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

 and Physiology

Physiology

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, followed by Special Physiology, and from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with a PhD in Pharmacology. Prior to joining UCL he was Wellcome Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Pharmacy. He has also held visiting professorships in the Universities of Chicago

University of Chicago

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, Iowa

University of Iowa

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 and Texas, and the University of Kanazawa

Kanazawa University

is a national university of Japan located in the city of Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture.Kanazawa University is divided into two main campuses: Kakuma and Takaramachi. Student enrollment is about 11,000 including 350 international students....

 (Japan

Japan

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), and has been a Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence at the National Institutes of Health

National Institutes of Health

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 in the United States

United States

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. He is currently living in London

London

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.

His publications are widespread and well known, having had his work published in prominent journals such as the British Journal of Pharmacology and the Journal of Neuroscience

Journal of Neuroscience

The Journal of Neuroscience is a weekly scientific journal published by the Society for Neuroscience. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical research articles in the field of neuroscience...

, the latter subject being one in which he is an important figure. He is past editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Pharmacology

British Journal of Pharmacology

The British Journal of Pharmacology is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of experimental pharmacology. It is published for the British Pharmacological Society by Wiley-Blackwell...

, and has served on the editorial board

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s of many other journals

Academic journal

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, including the Journal of Physiology, Neuron

Neuron (journal)

Neuron is a neuroscience scientific journal published by Cell Press. It has been in continuous publication since 1988....

, Trends in Neurosciences and Proceedings of the Royal Society

Proceedings of the Royal Society

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Brown is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (elected 1990), an Honorary Fellow and sometime Council Member of the British Pharmacological Society

British Pharmacological Society

The British Pharmacological Society is the professional association for pharmacologists in the UK.The society was formed when a group of pharmacologists met in Oxford, UK in 1931. The learned society aims to further education within Pharmacology and also organizes meetings of the world's most...

, an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology

Institute of Biology

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 (1980) and an Elected Fellow of Academia Europaea

Academia Europaea

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(1996). He won the Feldberg Foundation Prize in 1992.