David Dunger
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David Dunger | |
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 Dunger in his later years | |
| Education | Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paediatric diabetes and Pediatric endocrinology |
| Institutions | John Radcliffe Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital |
David Dunger (died 20 July 2021) was a British paediatric endocrinologist and chair of paediatrics at the University of Cambridge.[1] 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.[2][3]
Dunger undertook his clinical training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, University of London, specialising in paediatric diabetes and paediatric endocrinology [1] achieving a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery on 1 January 1971.
Dunger died on 20 July 2021.[4]
Career
Between 1986 and 2000 Dunger was Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford.[5] 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.[5]
