Nick Franks
Biophysics Section, Imperial College London, London, UK F1000 Section Head (since 16 November 2005)BIOGRAPHY
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:• Professor of Biophysics and Anaesthetics
• Head of Biophysics
• Lecturer, Biophysics of Nerve Cells and Networks
• Lecturer, Advanced Topics in Neuroscience Research
HONORS AND AWARDS:
• Gold Medal, Royal College of Anaesthetists, 2003
• Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, 2004
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Franks' central research interest is in understanding how general anaesthetics act. He has worked on this problem mainly at the molecular and cellular levels but more recently becoming interested in how anaesthetics act at the level of neuronal networks and pursuing the possibility that the sedative and hypnotic actions of general anaesthetics may be mediated through the same neuronal pathways that control natural sleep.
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http://www.bio.ph.ic.ac.uk/~nfranks
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