David B. Dunger

David Dunger (died 20 July 2021) was a British paediatric endocrinologist and chair of paediatrics at the University of Cambridge. Dunger was most notable for research into three areas, pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and its complications, perinatal origins of risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes along with experimental medicine.

Life Dunger undertook his clinical training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, University of London, specialising in paediatric diabetes and paediatric endocrinology

Career Between 1986 and 2000 Dunger was Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford. In 2000, Dunger was appointed to Addenbrooke's Hospital and at the same time took up the second Chair of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge. In 2012, Dunger was awarded the Andrea Prader Prize, from the same society, in recognising his outstanding achievements in leadership, teaching and clinical practice in the field of pediatric endocrinology. The award was named in honour of Andrea Prader, the Swiss scientist, pediatric endocrinologist, who discovered Prader–Willi syndrome. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2012 and, in 2015, Dunger was awarded the James Spence Medal.