David James Paterson MAE Hon FRSNZ[1] is a New Zealand-born British physiologist and academic.

[citation needed] Paterson was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford from 1988 to 1991.

The group made wide-ranging recommendations and concluded that the EJRA was justified for some academic grades based on one of the university's legitimate Aims regarding equality and intergeneration fairness.

In 2024 he was elected to the Academy of Fellows of the International Union of Physiological Sciences Fellows of IUPS Academy 2024 Paterson is best known for his studies on potassium,[8] chemoreception[9] and respiratory control, and more recently for his discovery linking peptides and the gaseous messenger nitric oxide to cyclic nucleotide coupled cardiac autonomic neurotransmission.

They are interested in how both branches of the cardiac autonomic nervous system communicate at the end organ level and established that oxidative stress plays a major role in uncoupling pre-synaptic and post synaptic signalling.

His group has developed methods for targeting the enzyme involved in making nitric oxide-cGMP using a gene transfer approach involving cell specific viral vectors and FRET sensors to study the physiology of this messenger in normal and diseased hearts.