David Brown

David Anthony Brown, (10 February 1936 — 21 October 2023) was a British pharmacologist. He was emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at University College London, having joined the department in April 1987 and served as Head of Department from October 1987 to April 2002. He is known for the discovery of the M current in the 1970s.

Education Brown graduated from University College with a BSc degree in Chemistry, Zoology and Physiology, followed by Special Physiology, and from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with a PhD in pharmacology.

Career and research Prior to joining UCL Brown was Wellcome Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Pharmacy. He also held visiting professorships in the Universities of Chicago, Iowa and Texas, and the University of Kanazawa (Japan), and was a Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. an Honorary Fellow and sometime Council Member of the British Pharmacological Society, an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology (1980) and an Elected Fellow of Academia Europaea (1996). He won the Feldberg Foundation Prize in 1992.