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Details for Professor David Jane
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor David Jane |
| Job title | Professor in Chemical Pharmacology |
| Department | School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.A.(Cantab.), Ph.D.(Salf.), M.R.S.C. |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Royal Society of Chemistry American Chemical Society British Pharmacological Society |
| Keywords | drug design synthetic organic chemistry amino acids medicinal chemistry computer-aided molecular modelling neuropharmacology of glutamate receptors |
| Areas of expertise | The group is concerned with the design, synthesis and pharmacological characterisation of analogues of the neurotransmitter glutamic acid in order to obtain selective agonists and antagonists for glutamate receptor subtypes. As glutamate is the major excitatory transmitter in the central nervous system novel pharmacological tools identified in the group can be used to identify the physiological roles of glutamate receptors. |