Alexei Verkhratsky
neurophysiologist
Alexei Verkhratsky, (Ukrainian: Олексій Верхратський, Russian: Алексей Верхратский) 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.
Family
Alexei is married to Irina Verkhratska and has a daughter, Dina. His father is Nestor Verkhratsky (Верхратський Нестoр Сергійович), a gerontologist who headed a laboratory at the Institute of Gerontology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His mother is Nina Verzykosvka (Вержиковська Ніна Василівна), who was a head of department at the same Institute. His grandfather is Sergey Verkhratsky (Верхратський Сергій Авраaмович) (ukr) who was head of the Department of Surgery in Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, a renowned historian of medicine, and a decorated veteran of both World Wars having received the Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Star, and Order of the Patriotic War. His grandmother was Dina Shirman-Verkhratska (Ширман-Верхратська Діна Алексеевна), a well known gynaecologist.
Education
Alexei graduated from the Kyiv Medical Institute in 1983.
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