Professor David Becker obtained his BSC in 1985 and PhD in 1988. He was awarded a prestigious 10 year Royal Society Research Fellowship in 1994 and is now a Reader in Cellular Imaging at University College London which is ranked in the top 10 research Universities in the world. Prof. Becker has published over 80 research articles and book chapters, with a Publication H-Index of 24 and acts as a reviewer for over 35 international journals and over 16 national and international grant funding agencies (including the USA NSF and NIH, New Zealand, Israel, the UK Wellcome Trust, MRC, BBSRC and The Royal Society). He is Director of the Centre for Cell and Molecular Dynamics imaging facility for the Faculty of Life Sciences UCL, which he has built up to be one of the best live cell imaging facilities worldwide, housing 10 confocal and multiphoton microscopes. In 2003 Prof. Becker won the Medical Futures Nomura award for the Best Biotech Start-Up Innovation.
Research Interest On Pharmacotherapeutics