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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Molecular and Cellular Neurology and Neuropathology,Physiology,Biophysics |
| Keywords | peripheral mammalian thermoreceptors, sensory transduction, molecular mechanisms, peripheral mammalian nociceptors, TRP ion channels |
Current contact address
| Country | Romania |
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| City | Bucharest |
| Institution | University of Bucharest |
| Institute | Faculty of Biology, Department of Animal Physiology and Biophysics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. med. Peter W. Reeh | Institut für Physiologie und Pathophysiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen |
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| Prof. Dr. Georg Nagel | Lehrstuhl für Botanik I: Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie und Biophysik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2006 |
Program(s)
| 2005 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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| 2019 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Babes is an international authority in the study of heat/cold and pain sensation. He investigated cold-sensitive nerve cells (neurons) and described for the first time a novel type of cold-sensitive neuron with rapid adaptation to cooling stimuli. Recently, Professor Babes’ research activities were focused on light-induced pain and itch in various human genetic diseases, involving TRP ion channels. In Würzburg and Erlangen he continues his research on TRP ion channels and their possible indirect activation by light. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2007 | Zimmermann, K., Leffler, A., Babes, A., Cendan, C. M., Carr, R. W., Kobayashi, J., Nau, C., Wood, J. N., Reeh, P: Sensory neuron sodium channel Nav1.8 is essential for pain at low temperatures. In: Nature, 2007, 855-859 |
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| 2006 | Alexandru Babes, Daniel Zorzon, Gordon Reid: A novel type of cold-sensitive neuron in rat dorsal root ganglia with rapid adaptation to cooling stimuli. In: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2006, 691-698 |