Chris Huang
Professor of Cell Physiology Tel: +44 (0)1223 333822, Fax: +44 (0)1223 333840, E-mail: clh11@cam.ac.uk
Qualifications B.A., B.M., B.Ch., M.A., D.M., D. Sc. (Oxford) M.A., Ph.D., M.D., Sc. D. (Cambridge)
Chris Huang held an open Florence Heale Scholarship whilst reading The Honour School of Physiological Sciences at The Queen's College, Oxford before proceeding to Clinical Studies at Oxford University Clinical School, and completing preregistration appointments with Profs. Sir David Weatherall and John Ledingham in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. After completing a PhD at the Physiological Laboratory and Gonville and Caius College, as an MRC Scholar under Prof. R. H Adrian’s supervision, he became Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in Physiology, then Reader in Cellular Physiology at Cambridge, whilst holding a Fellowship and directing Medical Studies at New Hall for much of this time.
His research has primarily concerned the mechanisms through which physiological activation takes place at the membrane level and its cellular and tissue propagation, using biophysical, microscopic and imaging methods. These were applied to early events in the activation of muscle and the maintenance of its tubular system, osteoclast regulation, and to the MRI analysis of physiological events in the central nervous system and heart, for which he was awarded, successively, the degrees of DM and DSc of the University of Oxford.
Chris Huang is a recipient of the LEPRA Award (British Leprosy Relief Association), and the Benefactor's Prize (The Queen's College, Oxford), Brian Johnson in Pathology (Oxford University Clinical School), and the Rolleston Memorial Prize (University of Oxford) and Gedge Prize (University of Cambridge) for Physiological Research. He has been an editor and distributing editor for the Journal of Physiology, chaired the editorial board for the Monographs of the Physiological Society, and currently is Biological Secretary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society for which he chairs the Editorial Board of Biological Reviews. He has been ProCultura Foundation Visiting Professor in Physiology for the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and is currently a Visiting Professor to Mount Sinai Medical School, New York. He plays the violin with the Cambridge String Players and reads Shakespeare in his spare time: Lesley Fotherby, Artist in Residence to the Cambridge String Players painted the portrait shown above.
Chris Huang (left), Richard Balasubramaniam (Right)
Photo: Roger Thomas (2003)