David Bennett MD, PhD

David Bennett, MB, Ph.D., is a professor of neurology at the University of Oxford and a consultant neurologist at Oxford University Hospitals in the UK. He is also a Wellcome Trust senior clinical scientist fellow. 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. Bennett takes a translational approach ranging from cell-based models to human pain models, to patients with chronic pain. He administers a 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 a vice director of European, a collaboration of scientists working in academia and industry that is funded by the European Union’s Innovative Medicines Initiative.