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Professor Dominic J Wells

Visiting Professor
Department of Medicine

E402
Burlington Danes
Hammersmith Campus

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Professor Dominic J Wells

Professor Dominic (Nic) Wells qualified from Cambridge University as a veterinary surgeon in 1984 together with a first class BA in Applied Biology. After several years in very mixed general practice in Nottinghamshire he  attended the University of Wyoming in the USA. Here he studied comparative exercise physiology with antelope and goats as well as writing his PhD on hummingbird flight energetics. Returning to the UK in 1990, he took a temporary lectureship at the Royal Veterinary College in London. In 1992 this was converted to a full lectureship. In 1995 he moved to the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, now part of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. He was appointed Professor in October 2005. 

Starting at the RVC, he developed his interests in transgenic biology and gene transfer into skeletal muscle, particularly in the context of developing therapies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). He has published many papers relating to the development of therapeutic approaches to DMD and he has regularly presented the work at both scientific and parent-patient group meetings. He also has a particular interest in the welfare of genetically modified mice and has been involved in a number of working groups seeking to implement best practice and the 3Rs. 

Professor Wells is Head of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Director of Postgraduate Studies for the Division of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He is the Course Director of the MRes in Experimental Neuroscience and the MRes in Experimental Physiology and Drug Discovery. He is a regular reviewer for a wide range of journals and funding bodies and is on the Editorial Boards of Molecular Therapy, Gene Therapy and Neuromuscular Disorders.