Nick Franks

Biophysics Section, Imperial College, United Kingdom

Nick Franks

Academic positions:
- Professor of Biophysics and Anaesthetics
- Head of Biophysics
- Lecturer, Biophysics of Nerve Cells and Networks
- Lecturer, Advanced Topics in Neuroscience Research

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

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

Any other information:
- Gold Medal, Royal College of Anaesthetists, 2003
- Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, 2004

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Anesthetic Mechanisms (since 16 November 2005)

Nick Franks is a Section Head for Anesthetic Mechanisms, part of the ANESTHESIOLOGY & PAIN MANAGEMENT Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.bio.ph.ic.ac.uk/~nfranks