John Nicholas Wood

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John Nicholas Wood
FRS FMedSci
Alma mater
Awards Scientific Grand Prize of the NRJ Fondation
Scientific career
FieldsNeurobiology
Institutions

John Nicholas Wood FRS is a British neurobiologist, and Head of the Molecular Nociception Group, at University College London. [1] [2] [3]

Fellow of the Royal Society Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, including Honorary, Foreign and Royal Fellows

Fellowship of the Royal Society is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of London judges to have made a 'substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science'.

University College London, which has operated under the official name of UCL since 2005, is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. It is a constituent college of the federal University of London, and is the third largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment, and the largest by postgraduate enrolment.

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Life

He earned a Ph.D. in virology at the University of Warwick in 1975. He studied with Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute from 1976 to 1979. He worked at St George's, University of London, with Brian Anderton and Tom Jessell.

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Luc Montagnier French virologist and joint recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Luc Antoine Montagnier is a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A long-time researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he currently works as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

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The Pasteur Institute 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 made some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine at the time, including pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies. The institute was founded on June 4, 1887, and inaugurated on November 14, 1888.

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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References

  1. "Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  2. "Prof John N Wood, Molecular Nociception Group". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  3. "John Nicholas Wood Patents". www.patentgenius.com.