Journal of Pain & Relief
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Jan M. Keppel Hesselink

Department of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, and Institute for neuropathic pain, The Netherlands

Biography

Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, MD, MSc, PhD received his MSc in biology (cum laude) at the university of Utrecht; his degree in medicine, MD in Utrecht, his PhD (thesis on Parkinson's disease) at the university of Nijmegen, NL. In 1996 he was appointed professor of molecular pharmacology at the university of Witten/Herdecke (Germany). He became a member of the British association of psychopharmacology (MBAP) and in the same period he was elected as Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Faculty in Medicine (FFPM) in the UK. He worked several years at Bayer AG in Germany as VP CNS and business head CNS.

Publications

Professor Rita Levi-Montalcini on Nerve Growth Factor, Mast Cells and Palmitoylethanolamide, an Endogenous Anti-Inflammatory and Analgesic Compound

Professor Rita Levi-Montalcini discovered Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) in 1954, and many papers are published since, relating to this tremendously important milestone for the medical sciences. Much less is known about another milestone in molecular and clinical neurology she and her co-workers achieved. In the period 1993-1996 her group identified the... Read More»

Jan M. Keppel Hesselink

Review Article: J Pain Relief 2013, 2:114

DOI: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000114

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