Neil Frankish
Associate Professor
Pharmacology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Assoc. Prof. Neil Frankish Ph.D., M.A., B.Sc. Associate Professor Email: nfrnkish@tcd.ie Phone: +353-1-896-2825 Location: Panoz Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Module Coordinator.
Research Interest
Neil Frankish obtained his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the university of Strathclyde, UK. A period of post doctoral research at Leeds University, UK, on the development of the calcium channel blocker bepridil (Vascor) focused his interest on novel drug development. With Assoc. Prof. Helen Sheridan, he is a co-founder of Trino Therapeutics, a commercial spin-out company from the School of Pharmacy. His recent research focus has been on Trino Therapeutics’ proprietary class of drugs made of novel indane dimer derivatives. He has characterised these potential drug candidates in several disease models in the areas of allergy and inflammation and explored their possible applications in a broad range of therapeutic areas. He is a co-inventor of Trino’s key drug class patents and together with Assoc. Prof. Sheridan has been responsible for taking a New Chemical Entity (NCE) from the drawing board through to human subjects.
Publications
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Tao Z, Paluch K, Scalabrino G, Frankish N, Healy AM, Sheridan H, Molecular structure studies of (1S,2S)-2-benzyl-2,3-dihydro-2-(1H-inden-2-yl)-1H-inden-1-ol, Journal of Molecular Structure, 2015, p286 - 299
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Nazir I, Ur Rahman N, Alvi Z, Hafizur Rahman M, Sendker J, Zhang T, Frankish N, Sheridan H., Erratum: Antidiabetic Activities of an LC/MS Fingerprinted Aqueous Extract of Fagonia cretica L. in Preclinical Models., Planta medica, 2017
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Imran Nazir, Nisar ur Rahman, Zunaira Alvi, M. Hafizur Rahman, Jandirk Sendker, Tao Zhang, Neil Frankish, Helen Sheridan, Antidiabetic Activities of an LC/MS Fingerprinted Aqueous Extract of Fagonia cretica L. in Preclinical Models*, Planta Medica, 83, 2017, p1-9
