William Albert Catterall (October 12, 1946 – February 28, 2024) was an American pharmacologist and neurobiologist, who researched ion channels.
He did his postdoctoral training in neurobiology and molecular pharmacology as a Muscular Dystrophy Association Fellow with Marshall Nirenberg[2] at the NIH from 1972 to 1974.
After three years as a staff scientist at the NIH, Catterall joined the University of Washington in 1977 as an associate professor of pharmacology.
He earned full professorship in 1981 and served as chair of the University of Washington's pharmacology department from 1984 to 2016.
[2] Catterall died suddenly on February 28, 2024, at the age of 77, of a cardiac arrest.