The Society regrets to hear that David Ogden passed away on 4 December 2021.

Ogden joined the Division of Biosciences at University College London, UK, in 1960s, where he worked with David Colquhoun, an Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, for many years. Ogden was a gifted builder of equipment. In the 1980s he helped construct some of the earliest patch clamp amplifiers, a device used in electrophysiology to study cell activity.

Ogden had an enormous impact on the next generation of researchers. For decades, he taught students to solder their own patch clamp amplifiers at the Plymouth Cell Physiology Workshop.