Franziska Denk

King's College London

Franziska Denk is an Associate Professor at King’s College London, where she works on neuro-immune-stromal cell interactions in the context of chronic pain. Her lab uses transgenic models, stem cell derived human cell culture systems and high-throughput molecular analyses (https://www.franziskadenk.com/, @denk_lab).

Franziska studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and completed her DPhil there in 2009. Her work is funded by the UK government, the European Union, industry, the Wellcome Trust and several other charities. Her group is passionate about data sharing (Denk, Nature, 2017), reproducibility (Soliman & Denk, 2023) and interdisciplinary research in an open, positive research culture.