John Nicholas Wood FRS is a British

neurobiologist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial c ...

, and Head of the Molecular Nociception Group, at University College London.

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He earned a Ph.D. in virology at the University of Warwick in 1975. He studied with

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at the Pasteur Institute from 1976 to 1979. He worked at St George's, University of London, with

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and

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. He worked at the Wellcome Foundation, and later at the Sandoz Institute (now Novartis). In 2002, he co-founded Ionix pharmaceuticals.

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