Stephen Brendan McMahon | |
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| Born | 21 December 1954 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 9 October 2021 |
| Nationality | British |
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| Known for | Pain research |
| Awards | Bonica IASP, British Neuroscience Association 2019 Outstanding Contribution of Neuroscience |
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Stephen "Mac" McMahon (21 December 1954 – 9 October 2021), FMedSci, was the Sherrington Professor of Physiology at King's College London, and Director of the Wellcome Trust / London Pain Consortium.[1] Professor McMahon led a world-renowned research laboratory at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases in central London from 1985 to 2021.
An outstanding educator as well as researcher, Professor McMahon was the editor of Wall and Melzack's Textbook of Pain, 5th and 6th Edition (7th Edition in preparation). He published more than 300 research articles[2] in scientific journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Cell, Neuron and the Journal of Neuroscience, with an H-index of 91.[3]
- ^ "The London Pain Consortium - Welcome To London Pain Consortium". www.lpc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ "SB McMahon - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (McMahon, StephenB)". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 28 March 2020.