Dr. Denis Noble
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Department of Physiology, University of Oxford, UK
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Denis Noble (b. November 16, 1936) obtained his Ph.D. in 1961 from University College London, where he was supervised by Otto Hutter. His pioneering work establishing a computer model of cardiac cells was published in 1960 in Nature. In 1963 he became a Fellow and Tutor in Physiology at Balliol College in Oxford. From 1984 to 2004 he held the Burdon Sanderson Professorship in Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford. He is now Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology at Oxford.
Dr. Noble was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979 and named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998. He was President of the Medical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 1991 to 1992. He became an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1988 and an Honorary Fellow in 1994, an Honorary Member of the American Physiological Society in 1996 and of the Japanese Physiological Society in 1998. As Secretary-General of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (1993–2001), Dr. Noble played a major role in launching the Physiome Project. He has published over 350 research papers and has written the first popular book on Systems Biology, The Music of Life (2006).
Dr. Noble's research focuses on using computer models of biological systems from the molecular level to the whole organism in order to elucidate functionality. With collaborators from different parts of the world he and his team have created a virtual heart, the world’s first virtual organ. He has also been active internationally in defending the International Council for Science’s principle of the free circulation of scientists. He has lectured or delivered speeches in French, Italian, Occitan, Japanese, Korean and Maori. For more information, visit http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/academic_staff/denis_noble.
Scholarpedia articles:
- Noble Model, Scholarpedia, 3(2):1803 (2008).
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