Dr. William A. Catterall 
Dr. William A. Catterall (USA), one of the world-wide leading scientist in the field of ion channel research. He and his colleagues discovered the voltage-gated sodium and calcium channel proteins, which are responsible for generation of electrical signals in the brain, heart, skeletal muscles, and other excitable cells. Their subsequent work has contributed much to understanding the structure, function, regulation, and molecular pharmacology of these key cell-signaling molecules. Dr. Catterall's recent work has turned toward understanding diseases caused by impaired function and regulation of voltage-gated ion channels, including epilepsy and periodic paralysis.
Dr. Catterall's research was recognized by many awards including numerous young scientist and investigator awards, the Basic Science Prize of the American Heart Association, the McKnight Foundation Senior Neuroscience Investigator Award, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research and the prestigious 2010 Canada Gairdner International Award. Dr. Catterall was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989 and as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London in 2008. He served as editor and editorial board member in numerous other professional journals. Dr. Catterall and his colleagues have published more than 400 research papers and 30 reviews and reference works on voltage-gated ion channels. His papers have been cited by other researchers more than 39,000 times.
Curriculum Vitae:
| Name: | William A. Catterall |
| Adresse: | Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Box 357280, Seattle, Washington USA 98195-7280 |
| Geburtsdatum: | 12. Oktober 1946 |
| Geburtsort: | Providence, RI, USA |
| 1968 | B.A. (Chemistry), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1972 | Promotion (Physiologische Chemie), Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1972-1974 | Muscular Dystrophy Association Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Marshall Nirenberg, Laboratory of Biochemical |
| 1974-1977 | Staff Fellow and Research Chemist, Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics, NHLBI, NIH |
| 1977-1981 | Associate Professor |
| Seit 1981 | Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, Washington |
| Seit 1984 | Chairman, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington |
| Seit 1986 | Chairman, Interdisciplinary Committee on Neurobiology, University of Washington |
| 1986-1990 | Director, Graduate Program in Neurobiology |
| Honors and Awards: | |
| 1981 | Passano Foundation Young Scientist Award |
| 1984, 1991 | Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Awards |
| 1989 | Member, National Academy of Sciences |
| 1992 | Bascic Science Prize, American Heart Association |
| 1994 | Member, Academia Europaea |
| 1995 | Mathilde Solowey Award in Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health |
| 1995 | H.B. Van Dyke Award in Pharmacology, Columbia University |
| 1997 | McKnight Foundation Senior Neuroscience Investigator Award |
| 1998-2001 | Sections of Physiology & Pharmacology and Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience Chari, Section of Physiology & Pharmacology |
| 2000 | Member, Institute of Medicine |
| 2003 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience |
| 2004 | Honorary Foreign Member, Royal Academy of Medicine Belgium |
| 2004-2009 | Most cited ion channel researcher, www.ionchannels.org |
| 2008 | Foreign Member, The Royal Society, London |
| 2010 | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 2010 | Robert Schwab Award, American clinical Neurophysiology Society, 2010 |
| 2010 | Gairdner International Award of Canada |
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