David Dunger (died 20 July 2021) was a British paediatric endocrinologist and chair of paediatrics at the University of Cambridge.^[1] Dunger was most notable for research into three areas, pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and its complications, perinatal origins of risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes along with experimental medicine.^[2][3]

Dunger undertook his clinical training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, University of London, specialising in paediatric diabetes and paediatric endocrinology ^[1] achieving a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery on 1 January 1971.

Dunger died on 20 July 2021.^[4]

Between 1986 and 2000 Dunger was Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford.^[5] In 2000, Dunger was appointed to Addenbrooke's Hospital and at the same time took up the second Chair of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge.^[5]

In 2002, Dunger won the Research Award of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology for conducting outstanding research in the field.^[1][6] In 2012, Dunger was awarded the Andrea Prader Prize, from the same society, in recognising his outstanding achievements in leadership, teaching and clinical practice in the field of pediatric endocrinology.^[7] The award was named in honour of Andrea Prader, the Swiss scientist, pediatric endocrinologist, who discovered Prader–Willi syndrome. In 2015, Dunger was awarded the James Spence Medal.^[2][8]

Dunger co-wrote these highly cited articles:

• Burton, Paul R.; Clayton, David G.; Cardon, Lon R.; et al. (7 June 2007). "Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls". Nature. 447 (7145): 661–678. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..661B. doi:10.1038/nature05911. PMC 2719288. PMID 17554300.
• Ong, KK; Ahmed, ML; Emmett, PM; Preece, MA; Dunger, DB (8 April 2000). "Association between postnatal catch-up growth and obesity in childhood: prospective cohort study". BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.). 320 (7240): 967–71. doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7240.967. PMC 27335. PMID 10753147.
• Todd, John A; Walker, Neil M; Cooper, Jason D; et al. (6 June 2007). "Robust associations of four new chromosome regions from genome-wide analyses of type 1 diabetes". Nature Genetics. 39 (7): 857–864. doi:10.1038/ng2068. PMC 2492393. PMID 17554260.
• Metzger, B. E.; Buchanan, T. A.; Coustan, D. R.; et al. (27 June 2007). "Summary and Recommendations of the Fifth International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus". Diabetes Care. 30 (Supplement 2): S251 – S260. doi:10.2337/dc07-s225. PMID 17596481.
• Burton, Paul R; Clayton, David G; Cardon, Lon R; et al. (21 October 2007). "Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants". Nature Genetics. 39 (11): 1329–1337. doi:10.1038/ng.2007.17. PMC 2680141. PMID 17952073.