David Dunger

David Dunger
Dunger in his later years
Nationality	British
Education	Great Ormond Street Hospital
Scientific career
Fields	PaediatricdiabetesandPediatric endocrinology
Institutions	John Radcliffe Hospital,Addenbrooke's Hospital

David DungerFRCPFRCPCH(died 20 July 2021) was a Britishpaediatric endocrinologistand chair ofpaediatricsat theUniversity of Cambridge.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.

Life

Dunger undertook his clinical training atGreat Ormond Street Hospital,University of London,specialising in paediatric diabetes and paediatric endocrinologyachieving aBachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgeryon 1 January 1971.

Dunger died on 20 July 2021.

Career

Between 1986 and 2000 Dunger was Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at theJohn Radcliffe Hospital,University of Oxford.In 2000, Dunger was appointed toAddenbrooke's Hospitaland at the same time took up the second Chair of Paediatrics at theUniversity of Cambridge.

Awards and honours

In 2002, Dunger won the Research Award of theEuropean Society for Paediatric Endocrinologyfor conducting outstanding research in the field.In 2012, Dunger was awarded theAndrea Prader Prize,from the same society, in recognising his outstanding achievements in leadership, teaching and clinical practice in the field of pediatric endocrinology.The award was named in honour ofAndrea Prader,theSwissscientist,pediatric endocrinologist,who discoveredPrader–Willi syndrome.In 2015, Dunger was awarded theJames Spence Medal.

Bibliography

Dunger co-wrote these highly cited articles:

• Burton, Paul R.; Clayton, David G.; Cardon, Lon R.; et al. (7 June 2007)."Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls".Nature.447(7145): 661–678.Bibcode:2007Natur.447..661B.doi:10.1038/nature05911.PMC2719288.PMID17554300.
• Ong, KK; Ahmed, ML; Emmett, PM; Preece, MA; Dunger, DB (8 April 2000)."Association between postnatal catch-up growth and obesity in childhood: prospective cohort study".BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.).320(7240): 967–71.doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7240.967.PMC27335.PMID10753147.
• Todd, John A; Walker, Neil M; Cooper, Jason D; et al. (6 June 2007)."Robust associations of four new chromosome regions from genome-wide analyses of type 1 diabetes".Nature Genetics.39(7): 857–864.doi:10.1038/ng2068.PMC2492393.PMID17554260.
• Metzger, B. E.; Buchanan, T. A.; Coustan, D. R.; et al. (27 June 2007)."Summary and Recommendations of the Fifth International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus".Diabetes Care.30(Supplement 2): S251–S260.doi:10.2337/dc07-s225.PMID17596481.
• Burton, Paul R; Clayton, David G; Cardon, Lon R; et al. (21 October 2007)."Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants".Nature Genetics.39(11): 1329–1337.doi:10.1038/ng.2007.17.PMC2680141.PMID17952073.