CURRENT MAJOR RESEARCH THEMES

Heat shock protein enhancers and motor neurone disease (with Biorex [Hungary], Linda Greensmith, Institute of Neurology and Robert Brown Jr., Harvard)

Purinergic mechanosensory transduction and pain

(with Roche Bioscience, Palo Alto)

Purinergic signalling in the airways (with Jean-Pierre Timmermans, Antwerp, and Mike Spyer, Physiology, UCL)

Purinergic signalling and bone formation/resorption

          

Purinergic signalling in embryonic development

           

Purinergic signalling in skin, prostate and bladder cancer (with Robert Morgan, Urology, Royal Free, and Malcolm Rustin, Dermatology, Royal Free)

Purinergic signalling in the kidney (with Robert Unwin, Nephrology & Physiology, UCL)

Chairman IUPHAR Committee on Nucleotide P2 Receptors