Clay Armstrong

Clay Margrave Armstrong ( born 1934 in Chicago) is an American physiologist and former professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Life

Armstrong earned a bachelor's degree in 1956 at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He studied medicine, he graduated in 1960 with the MD at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, from. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked from 1961 to 1964 by Kenneth Stewart Cole at the National Institutes of Health and from 1964 to 1966 with Andrew Fielding Huxley at University College London. After working at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, he received in 1976 a professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As Emeritus shall send a working group there.

Work

Armstrong is one of the pioneers in the study of ion channels. By means of electrophysiological methods such as the patch -clamp technique Armstrong explored how to make changes in the membrane potential of cells or drugs to changes in the permeability of ion channels. Armstrong's work are fundamental to the understanding of the effect of many drugs on the heart muscle, muscle or nerve cells.

Awards (selection)

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