Nicholas Franks

Nicholas Peter Franks FRS FRSB (born 14 October 1949) has been Professor of Biophysics and Anaesthetics at Imperial College London since 1993.[1] His research focuses on how general anaesthetics act at the cell and molecular levels as well as with neuronal networks.[2] Franks holds patents on use of xenon gas as a neuroprotectant [3] and has published research on the use of the anesthetic properties of xenon.[4]

He was educated at Mill Hill School and King's College London (BSc 1972; PhD 1975).[5] He was a Lecturer in Biophysics at Imperial College London from 1977 to 1989 and a Reader in Biophysics from 1989 to 1993.

Awards & Honors

Along with being made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011, Franks is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto and as Stuart Cullen Lecture, University of California San Francisco.

References

  1. "Professor Nick Franks, FRS". Imperial College London. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  2. Franks, Nicholas (2014). "The role of K2P channels in anaesthesia and sleep". European Journal of Physiology. 467: 907–916. doi:10.1007/s00424-014-1654-4.
  3. Dickinson, R (2007). "Competitive inhibition at the glycine site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor by the anesthetics xenon and isoflurane: evidence from molecular modeling and electrophysiology.". Anesthesiology. 107: 756–67. doi:10.1097/01.anes.0000287061.77674.71. PMID 18073551.
  4. Franks, Nicholas (1998). "How does xenon produce anaesthesia?". Nature. 396: 324. doi:10.1038/24525. PMID 9845069.
  5. ‘FRANKS, Prof. Nicholas Peter’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016

External links

Neuroprotexeon Scientific Advisory Board: http://neuroprotexeon.com/scientific-advisory-board/

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