Dr Keith Brain PhD, MB/BS, FBPhS

Dr Keith Brain

Department of Biomedical Sciences
Associate Professor
Head of Intercalation, CMH

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7346
Email
k.l.brain@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Brain is the Head of Intercalation for the College of Medicine and Health, Head of Assessments (MBChB) and the deputy lead for Years 1 and 2 of the MBChB programme.

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society, 2015
  • MA, University of Oxford, 2002
  • MB/BS(Hons), University of Sydney, 2000
  • PhD, Physiology, University of Sydney, 1999
  • BSc(Med)(Hons), University of Sydney, 1995
  • BSc, Physics and Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, 1995

Biography

Dr Brain graduated with a PhD in Physiology in 1998 and in Medicine in 1999 from the University of Sydney, Australia. After working as a medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney he joined the Department of Pharmacology, Oxford, in 2001.


While in Oxford, Dr Brain held a series of research fellowships, including a Nuffield Medical Fellowship, Wellcome Trust Career Development Research Fellowship (both based in the Department of Pharmacology), Staines Medical Research Fellowship (Exeter College) and the post of Research Fellow and Tutor (Keble College). In 2009 he moved to the post of Senior Lecturer (Neuropharmacology) at the University 麻豆精选. His field of research is Autonomic Neuroscience (he is the International Secretary for the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience), is the Head of Intercalation for the College of Medical and Dental Sciences, and the deputy lead for Years 1 and 2 of the MBChB programme. He also teaches in the fields of Pharmacology and Renal physiology.

Teaching

  • MBChB Medicine and Surgery
    • Foundations of Medical Science 1
    • Foundations of Medical Science 2
    • Foundations of Medical Science 3

  •  Biomedical Science BSc 
    • Digestion and Renal Science
    • Fundamentals of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
    • Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology
    • Neuroscience 2
    • Student Selected Project
    • Molecular and Integrative Pharmacology
    • Neuropharmacology

  • Dental Surgery BDS
    • Introduction to Biomedical Science
    • Neuromuscular Systems

  • MPharm Pharmacy (4-year)
    • Health Disease and Therapeutics 1.1

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Brain is happy to discuss PhD proposals in autonomic physiology, autonomic pharmacology and urogenital pathophysiology.

Research

Research interests
Dr Brain鈥檚 laboratory aims to understand autonomic junctional transmission from fundamental principles through to therapeutic interventions

Current projects
鈥� The effect of cannabinoids on sympathetic transmission
鈥� The role of parasympathetic transmission in bladder overactivity (with R. Manchanda, IIT, Mumbai)
鈥� Developing new optical and MRI-sensitive probes for sympathetic failure (with S. Muzerengi)

Other activities

Currently:

  • International Secretary, .
  • External examiner: Newcastle MB/BS (2nd year medicine)
  • Co-Principle Investigator, Birmingham CRUK Centre Clinical Academic Training Programme
  • GMC registration: 6061635
  • Wikipedia Master Editor

Formerly:

  • Editor, British Journal of Pharmacology
External programme examinerships at King’s College London (Pharmacology), University of Dundee (Pharmacology) and University of Cardiff (Pharmacology for Pharmacy)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Appukuttan, S, Brain, K & Manchanda, R 2021, '', Frontiers in Physiology, vol. 12, 655225.

Cao, L, Marshall, J, Fabritz, L & Brain, K 2021, '', Autonomic Neuroscience, vol. 232, 102794.

Alzahrani, AA, Cao, LL, Aldossary, HS, Nathanael, D, Fu, J, Ray, CJ, Brain, KL, Kumar, P, Coney, AM & Holmes, AP 2021, '', Pfluegers Archiv: European journal of physiology , vol. 473, no. 1, pp. 37-51.

Cao, L, Holmes, A, Marshall, J, Fabritz, L & Brain, K 2020, '', Autonomic Neuroscience, vol. 223, 102611.

Padmakumar, M, Brain, K & Manchanda, R 2019, '', Biomedical Research Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 49-55.

Hansen, T, Tarasova, OS, Khammy, MM, Ferreira, A, Kennard, JA, Andresen, J, Staehr, C, Brain, K, Nilsson, H & Aalkj忙r, C 2019, '', Acta Physiologica, vol. 226, no. 4, e13279.

Chapter

Padmakumar, M, Brain, K & Manchanda, R 2024, . in S Appukuttan & R Manchanda (eds), Urinary Bladder Physiology: Computational Insights. 1 edn, Publ Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. <>

Sengupta, N, Brain, K & Manchanda, R 2024, . in R Manchanda & S Appukuttan (eds), Urinary Bladder Physiology: Computational Insights. Publ Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. <>

Mahapatra, C, Brain, K & Manchanda, R 2024, . in Urinary Bladder Physiology: Computational Insights. 1 edn, Publ Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. <>

Appukuttan, S, Padmakumar, M, Young, J, Brain, K & Manchanda, R 2019, . in H Dierckx, FH Fenton, S Filippi & A Pumir (eds), Simulating normal and arrhythmic dynamics: from sub-cellular to tissue and organ level. Frontiers, pp. 64-76.

Abstract

Briggs, D, Hunt, J, Raut, S, Saleeb-Mousa, J, Coney, A, Kalla, M, Holmes, A & Brain, K 2024, '', Congress of The International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 25/07/24 - 27/07/24 pp. 177-177. <>

Brain, K & Nagy, Z 2023, '', The Clinical Teacher, vol. 20, no. S1, pp. 85-86.

Conference contribution

Cao, L, Marshall, J & Brain, K 2020, . in British Journal of Pharmacology. vol. 178, P047, pp. 423-423.

Cao, L, Marshall, J, Fabritz, L & Brain, K 2020, . in Clinical Autonomic Research. vol. 30, 21, Springer, pp. 470-471.

Review article

Saleeb-Mousa, J, Nathanael, D, Coney, AM, Kalla, M, Brain, KL & Holmes, AP 2023, '', Cells, vol. 12, no. 12, 1661.