John Wood wins Europe-wide award for pain research

John Wood, Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Science (WIBR), has won the Grand Prix Scientifique 2009 from the Fondation NRJ, at  the Institut de France. The annual prize is open to research teams across Europe. The theme this year was 'pain and its treatments'. Professor Wood is Head of the Molecular Nociception Group within WIBR. The group focuses on genetic approaches to understanding the biology of damage-sensing neurons, pain and touch. The group collaborates with research groups across the world to explore the physiology of pain perception. The group's recent work has focused on ion channels that are essential for pain perception in mice and people, as well as the identification of neuronal subtypes that are responsible for particular types of sensation - for example, the sense of heat or pressure.
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