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    Dr Ichrak DRISSI

    University Position
    Research Associate

    Interests

    I'm a neuroscientist at Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge. My research interests aim to understand genetic alterations underlying painlessness and excess pain disorders. By analysing DNA from patients suffering from chronic pain or don't experience pain, using transgenic mice, molecular and cellular biology techniques and electrophysiology in cell lines and neurons, I try to identify cellular mechanisms driving these disorders and develop new and more effective analgesics

    Key Publications

    Human Labor Pain Is Influenced by the Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel KV6.4 Subunit.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107941
    Journal: Cell Rep
    E-pub date: 21 Jul 2020
    Authors: MC Lee, MS Nahorski, JRF Hockley, VB Lu, G Ison, LA Pattison, G Callejo, K Stouffer, E Fletcher, C Brown, I Drissi, D Wheeler, P Ernfors, D Menon, F Reimann, ESJ Smith, CG Woods

    Publications

    Mutations in phospholipase C eta-1 (PLCH1) are associated with holoprosencephaly.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2020-107237
    Journal: J Med Genet
    E-pub date: 1 Apr 2022
    Authors: I Drissi, E Fletcher, R Shaheen, M Nahorski, AM Alhashem, S Lisgo, A Fernández-Jaén, K Schon, K Tlili-Graiess, SF Smithson, S Lindsay, H J Sharpe, FS Alkuraya, G Woods