John Wood PhD

Professor of Molecular Neurobiology

Molecular Nociception webpage

j .wood@ucl.ac.uk
tel: (+44)-(0)20-7679-7800
fax: (+44)-(0)20-7679-7096

John Wood is Professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Head of the Molecular Nociception group at University College London , where he has worked since 1994. Dr Wood completed a Ph.D. in virology in 1975 at Warwick University and carried out post-doctoral research with Luc Montagnier at The Pasteur Institute in Paris from 1976-1979. He then moved into Neuroscience, working with Brian Anderton and Tom Jessell at St Georges Hospital London, before spending 12 years in industry, first at the Wellcome Foundation, and later at the Sandoz (now Novartis) Institute for Medical Research in London. In 2002, he co-founded Ionix pharmaceuticals, a start-up biotechnology company comprising 46 scientists based in Cambridge UK, which is developing analgesic drugs directed against new targets defined by genetic research. Dr Wood is the author of more than a hundred research publications, and several books and patents.

References

Souslova V., Cesare P., Ding Y., Akopian A.N., Stanfa L., Suzuki R., Carpenter K., Dickenson A., Boyce S., Hill R., Nebenius-Oosthuizen D., Smith A.J., Kidd E.J., and Wood J.N. (2000) Warm-coding deficits and aberrant inflammatory pain in mice lacking P2X3. Nature 407: 1015-1017

Okuse K, Malik-Hall M, Baker M.D, Poon W.Y, Kong H, Chao M.V, Wood J.N. (2002) Annexin II light chain regulates sensory neuron-specific sodium channel expression. Nature. 2002 Jun 6;417(6889):653-6

Baker M.D, Chandra S.Y, Ding Y, Waxman S.G, Wood J.N. (2003) GTP-induced tetrodotoxin-resistant Na+ current regulates excitability in mouse and rat small diameter sensory neurones. J Physiol. 2003 Apr 15;548(Pt 2):373-82