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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1976 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

John Wood is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields of study, most prominently medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and neuroscience. Within these broad categories, their work focuses significantly on subfields such as physiology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, and sensory systems.

The main topics covered in John Wood's research include:

  • Pain mechanisms and treatments
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Neuropeptides and animal physiology
  • Ion channels and receptors
  • Hereditary neurological disorders
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research

John Wood's frequent co-authors include James J. Cox, Ana Paula Luiz, Jing Zhao, Shafaq Sikandar, and Federico Iseppon, reflecting ongoing collaborations that have produced numerous publications.

Regarding publication venues, the scientist has contributed extensively to the following journals and platforms:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain
  • Neurobiology of Pain
  • Pain
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by John Wood are:

  • Embracing cancer complexity: Hallmarks of systemic disease, 2024, published in Cell
  • Dorsal Root Ganglia Macrophages Maintain Osteoarthritis Pain, 2021, published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • A Central Mechanism of Analgesia in Mice and Humans Lacking the Sodium Channel NaV1.7, 2021, published in Neuron
  • Neutrophils Infiltrate Sensory Ganglia and Mediate Chronic Widespread Pain in Fibromyalgia, 2023, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mechanisms of Cancer Pain, 2023, published in Frontiers in Pain Research

John Wood has received recognitions including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1976. These distinctions underscore a longstanding career in scientific research.

Best Publications

  • Experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark-gluon plasma: The STAR Collaboration's critical assessment of the evidence from RHIC collisions

    J. Adams;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;J. Amonett

  • Particle-flow reconstruction and global event description with the CMS detector

    A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;E. Asilar

  • An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain

    James J Cox;Frank Reimann;Adeline K. Nicholas;Gemma K Thornton

  • Nomenclature of voltage-gated sodium channels.

    Alan L. Goldin;Robert L. Barchi;John H. Caldwell;Franz Hofmann

  • A tetrodotoxin-resistant voltage-gated sodium channel expressed by sensory neurons

    Armen N. Akopian;Lucia Sivilotti;John N. Wood

  • A P2X purinoceptor expressed by a subset of sensory neurons

    Chih Cheng Chen;Armen N. Akopian;Lucia Sivilotti;David Colquhoun

  • STAR detector overview

    K. H. Ackermann;N. Adams;C. Adler;Z. Ahammed

  • The tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium channel SNS has a specialized function in pain pathways

    Armen N. Akopian;Veronika Souslova;Steven England;Steven England;Kenji Okuse

  • Piezo2 is the major transducer of mechanical forces for touch sensation in mice

    Sanjeev S. Ranade;Seung Hyun Woo;Adrienne E. Dubin;Rabih A. Moshourab

  • Disappearance of back-to-back high-pT Hadron correlations in central Au + Au collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV

    C. Adler;Z. Ahammed;C. Allgower;J. Amonett

  • Transverse momentum and collision energy dependence of high p(T) hadron suppression in Au+Au collisions at ultrarelativistic energies

    J. Adams;C. Adler;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

  • Description and performance of track and primary-vertex reconstruction with the CMS tracker

    S Chatrchyan;Khachatryan;AM Sirunyan;A Tumasyan

  • Nociceptor-specific gene deletion reveals a major role for Nav1.7 (PN1) in acute and inflammatory pain

    Mohammed A. Nassar;L. Caroline Stirling;Greta Forlani;Mark D. Baker

  • SCN9A Mutations in Paroxysmal Extreme Pain Disorder: Allelic Variants Underlie Distinct Channel Defects and Phenotypes

    Caroline R. Fertleman;Mark D. Baker;Keith A. Parker;Sarah Moffatt

  • Composite outcomes in randomized trials: greater precision but with greater uncertainty?

    Nick Freemantle;Melanie Calvert;John Wood;Joanne Eastaugh

  • Evidence from d + Au measurements for final state suppression of high p(T) hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

    J. Adams;C. Adler;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

  • Performance of electron reconstruction and selection with the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV

    Khachatryan;AM Sirunyan;A Tumasyan;W Adam

  • Azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200GeV

    J. Adams;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;J. Amonett

  • Centrality dependence of high-pt hadron suppression in Au + Au collisions at √SNN = 130 GeV

    C. Adler;Z. Ahammed;C. Allgower;J. Amonett

  • Combined measurements of Higgs boson couplings in proton–proton collisions at √s=13Te

    A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;F. Ambrogi

  • Particle-type dependence of azimuthal anisotropy and nuclear modification of particle production in Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV

    J. Adams;C. Adler;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

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