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Christopher L-H HuangProfessor of Cell Physiology University of Cambridge BMBCh, MA, DM, DSc (Oxford), PhD, MD, ScD (Cambridge) Telephone: 01223 333822 Murray Edwards College Chris Huang was the Florence Heale Scholar reading Medicine and Physiology at The Queen's College, Oxford and completed his preregistration clinical appointments in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He joined Gonville and Caius College as an MRC Scholar to complete a PhD in membrane biophysics, and then successively became an Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in Physiology, Reader and finally the Professor of Cell Physiology at Cambridge, whilst being Fellow and Director of Medical Studies at Murray Edwards College. His research is directed at the control of cellular activation, particularly the initiation of muscle contraction and its implications for cellular electrolyte homeostasis, and the control of bone resorption under both normal and osteoporotic conditions. This work has been extended to the propagation of cellular changes in migraine aura and cardiac arrhythmogenesis, and the translation of such physiological insights to clinical management. Chris Huang received the LEPRA Award (British Leprosy Relief Association), the Benefactor's (Queen's, Oxford) and Brian Johnson Prizes (Oxford Medical School), as well as the Rolleston (Oxford) and Gedge Prizes (Cambridge) for physiological research. He is/has been editor of the Journal of Physiology, the Monographs of the Physiological Society and Biological Reviews, and has been visiting professor to the Universities of Debrecen (Hungary) and Hong Kong, and Mount Sinai Medical School, New York. He is currently a Manager of the Prince Philip Scholarship Fund, an Adjunct Professor in Cardiology to Xi’an Jiaotong University (China), Vice-President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and an Independent Nonexecutive Director to Hutchison ChiMed and chairman of its technical committee. He plays the violin with the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and reads Shakespeare in his spare time. |
