Alexei Verkhratsky

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Alexei Verkhratsky
Олексій Верхратский
Born	(1961-07-30)July 30, 1961[1] Stanislaw (Ivano-Frankivsk), Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Education	PhD, D.Sc.
Alma mater	Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kyiv Medical Institute
Known for	Research on glial physiology and pathophysiology, calcium signalling, brain ageing
Spouse	Irina Verkhratska
Children	Dina
Awards	Copernicus Gold Medal, Research Award of German Purine Club
Scientific career
Fields	Neurophysiology, neuroglia, neurones, how glia affects health and disease
Institutions	University of Manchester, Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Max-Delbrück Center of Molecular Medicine, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology
Theses	Mechanisms of calcium signal generation in neurones and glial cells  (1993) Tetrodotoxin sensitive ionic currents in the membrane of isolated cardiomyocytes  (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Platon Kostiuk

Alexei Verkhratsky, (Ukrainian: Олексій Верхратський,^[2] Russian: Алексей Верхратский^[3]) sometimes spelled Alexej, is a professor of neurophysiology at the University of Manchester best known for his research on the physiology and pathophysiology of neuroglia, calcium signalling, and brain ageing. He is an elected member and vice-president of Academia Europaea, of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, of the Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia (Spain), of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, of Polish Academy of Sciences, and Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, among others. Since 2010, he is a Ikerbasque Research Professor and from 2012 he is deputy director of the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience in Bilbao. He is a distinguished professor at Jinan University, China Medical University of Shenyang, and Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and is an editor-in-chief of Cell Calcium, receiving editor for Cell Death and Disease, and Acta Physiologica and member of editorial board of many academic journals.