Brian McArdle

Brian McArdle (9 April 1911 – 1 August 2002) was a British medical doctor and researcher. He is known for first describing glycogen storage disease type V in his 1951 paper, while working at Guy's Hospital.

Career The paper, titled Myopathy due to a defect in muscle glycogen breakdown, described a 30-year-old man with a history of exertional muscle pain and stiffnesssymptoms that previous doctors had dismissed as psychologicalbut which are now attributed to glycogen storage disease type V. Since then, the molecular and genetic basis of the disease has been identified. Besides the disease's scientific name, it is also named eponymously as McArdle's disease.