Dr. David Bennett MB PhD
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Dr. David Bennett MB PhD CV resumido en español David Benett es Profesor de neurología y neurobiología en la Universidad de Oxford y es consultor de neurología en los Hospitales de la Universidad de Oxford de Inglaterra. Es el científico clínico senior de Wellcome. Su investigación ha estado dirigida hacia los factores tróficos relacionados a la plasticidad del sistema nervioso sensorial. Actualmente esta focalizado en la patogenésis del dolor neuropático y el desarrollo de nuevas terapias. Estudia la traducción de modelos basados en células a la psicofísica humana y estudios clínicos de cohorte. Dirige una clínica de dolor neuropático adosada a Hospitales de la Universidad de Oxford y tiene referencias nacionales de canalopatías dolorosas. Es miembro del Consorcio de Dolor de Londres y es vice-director de la Iniciativa de Medicina en Investigación del “Europain”. Biography David Bennett is Professor of neurology and neurobiology at the University of Oxford and consultant neurologist at Oxford University Hospitals in the UK. He undertook his medical training at the Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school London and then completed specialist training in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and King’s College Hospital London. He is also a senior Wellcome clinical scientist. He has a longstanding interest in the role of trophic factors in mediating plasticity of the sensory nervous system. His current focus is to understand the pathogenesis of neuropathic pain and to develop novel therapeutics. He takes a translational approach ranging from cell based models to human psychophysics and studying clinical cohorts. He administers a specialist neuropathic pain clinic based at Oxford University hospitals and receives national referrals for painful channelopathies. He is a member of the London Pain Consortium and is vice-director of the ‘Europain’ Investigational Medicines Initiative.
