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David E. Clapham, M.D., Ph.D.

David E. Clapham

Dr. Clapham is also Aldo R. Castañeda Professor of Cardiovascular Research at Children's Hospital Boston and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. He was trained in electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Emory University. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and his postdoctoral fellowship with Erwin Neher of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. Dr. Clapham is the recipient of the Cole Award from the Biophysical Society, the Basic Science Prize from the American Heart Association, and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.



RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:

David Clapham is interested in the signal transduction control of ion channel activity and the role of calcium as an intracellular messenger.

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Photo: John Bridges

HHMI INVESTIGATOR
1997–Present
Children's Hospital Boston


Research Abstract
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Ion Channels and Calcium Signaling

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