Francis McGlone

Professor Francis Philip McGlone (born November 1948) is a neuroscientist at Liverpool John Moores University, where he is the head of the Somatosensory & Affective Neuroscience Group.

Awards and honours
In 2019, Professor McGlone & colleagues were awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize for their work on measuring The Pleasurability of Scratching an Itch

Selected publications

 * Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents (Joint editor)
 * Itch: Basic Mechanisms and Therapy (Joint editor)