John Nicholas Wood FRS is a British neurobiologist, and Head of the Molecular Nociception Group, at University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

.

Life

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

University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...

 in 1975.
He studied with Luc Montagnier

Luc Montagnier

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...

 at the Pasteur Institute

Pasteur Institute

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...

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

St George's, University of London

St George's, University of London is a medical school located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

, with Brian Anderton and Tom Jessell.

He worked at the Wellcome Foundation, and later at the Sandoz Institute (now Novartis

Novartis

Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...

). In 2002, he co-founded Ionix pharmaceuticals.

External links

• http://www.ucl.ac.uk/molecular-nociception-group/
• http://www.patentgenius.com/inventedby/WoodJohnNicholasLondonGB.html