David A. Eisner

After attending Manchester Grammar School, he received his B.A. in Natural Sciences at King's College, Cambridge in 1976. In 1979 he obtained a D.Phil in Physiology at Oxford University in the laboratory of Denis Noble for work on the sodium pump in cardiac muscle.

Following postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge on the kinetics of the sodium pump in the laboratory of Ian Glynn, he took up a lectureship in the Department of Physiology at University College London in 1980. In 1990 he moved to The University of Liverpool as Professor of Veterinary Biology. In 1999 he took up a Chair of Cardiac Physiology at The University of Manchester and, in 2000 was awarded the BHF Chair of Cardiac Physiology.

Eisner was Chair of The Editorial Board of The Journal of Physiology from 1997–2000 and Editor-in Chief of The Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology from 2007–2016.

Eisner's early research focused on the regulation of intracellular sodium in cardiac muscle and the effects on contraction. He then investigated the control of intracellular calcium concentrationand its role in the production of arrhythmias. He has identified the factors that regulate the calcium content of the sarcoplasmic reticulum and how this is altered in disease.

Eisner was elected as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999 and The International Society for Heart Research in 2001. and as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2007. He was elected to Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College of Physicians in 2010. Prizes awarded to him include: The GL Brown and Annual Review Lecture of The Physiological Society; the Keith Reimer Lecture and the Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award of the International Society for Heart Research; the Carmeliet-Coraboeuf-Weidmann Lecture of the European Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology.