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David Gardner

Professor of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

David Gardner is a Professor of Physiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham.

From 2003, for a period of 5 years, David held a British Heart Foundation Basic Science Lectureship at Nottingham, and was briefly, prior to that, a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Development. He initially studied Zoology and Physiology at the University of London (First Class, 1994; Royal Holloway College) and completed a PhD in nutrition (University of Southampton, 1997). After graduating, David spent five years as a postdoctoral research fellow studying fetal physiology in the Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge. In 2016 David received his DSc for research work into 'Nutrition from Development through to Disease'.

Expertise Summary

Dr Gardner's expertise is in physiology, in particular, understanding how nutrition can affect cardiovascular, metabolic and/or renal physiology in the context of healthy aging.

Teaching Summary

Dr Gardner has been Module Convenor for The Urinary System (D12URI) which runs in year 2/5 of the undergraduate veterinary curriculum (BVM BVS). Dr Gardner contributes toward teaching in renal… read more

Research Summary

The particular research questions that I am interested in at present are the mechanisms that lead to an acute loss of kidney function (Acute Kidney Injury or AKI) and how we may either prevent it… read more

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School of Veterinary Medicine and Science

University of Nottingham
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Leicestershire, LE12 5RD

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