John Parrington is an Associate Professor in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine at Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author of The Deeper Genome (OUP, 2015), Redesigning Life (OUP, 2016) and Mind Shift (OUP, 2021). His research focuses on how chemical signals regulate important processes in the body and how better understanding of these processes might be harnessed to create new types of drugs. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles in reputed science journals and published articles in the Guardian, New Scientist, Chemistry World, Psychology Today and Aeon.

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