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Will Brackenbury

Will Brackenbury is a Medical Research Council Fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of York. After a first degree in Biology and a PhD in cell physiology at Imperial College London, he moved to the USA to work in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2006. He returned to the UK in 2011 and is currently principal investigator of an ion channel research laboratory at the University of York.

"My research centres on sodium channels, and their role in regulating the ability of cancer cells to move and invade into surrounding tissues. These ion channels are important targets for treatment of epilepsy and we are currently exploring the possibility that antiepileptic drugs may have value in oncology. To do this, we need to understand the mechanisms by which sodium channels regulate adhesion and cell migration."