David Colquhoun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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British pharmacologist
Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1936
Place of Birth: Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom
Profession: pharmacologist
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About David Colquhoun
- David Colquhoun (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.
- He was critical of Tim Hunt following the controversies of the 2015 World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul.
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