John Nicholas Wood
FRS is a British
neurobiologist, and Head of the Molecular Nociception Group, at
University College London
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Life
He earned a Ph.D. in virology at the
University of Warwick
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in 1975.
He studied with
Luc Montagnier at the
Pasteur Institute
The Pasteur Institute (french: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines ...
from 1976 to 1979.
He worked at
St George's, University of London
St George's, University of London (legally St George's Hospital Medical School, informally St George's or SGUL), is a University located in Tooting in South London and is a constituent college of the University of London. St George's has its o ...
, with
Brian Anderton and
Tom Jessell.
He worked at the
Wellcome Foundation
The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glax ...
, and later at the Sandoz Institute (now
Novartis
Novartis AG is a Swiss-American multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland and
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). In 2002, he co-founded Ionix pharmaceuticals.
See also
Prof. Anthony Dickenson
References
Living people
British neuroscientists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Academics of University College London
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Year of birth missing (living people)
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