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Research

Research and publications

Before qualifying as a chiropractor, Steve Davison worked in research. This page is the record of that: one peer-reviewed paper from his time at King’s College London, one pilot study presented at a chiropractic congress in 2003, and the training behind both. It is a bibliography rather than an argument, and nothing here is offered as evidence for any clinical method or for what care achieves.

Peer-reviewed publication

1997

Alam MK, Davison S, Siddiqui N, Norton JD, Murphy JJ. Ectopic expression of Bcl-2, but not Bcl-x(L), rescues Ramos B cells from Fas-mediated apoptosis. European Journal of Immunology. 1997;27(12):3485–3491. doi:10.1002/eji.1830271249

The work was done at the Infection and Immunity Research Group, King’s College London. It is published under the name Stephen Davison rather than Steve, and Stephen is still the name on his LinkedIn profile. Stephen Davison and Steve Davison are one person.

Presented research

2003

Davison SM, Parkin-Smith GF. The possible effect of cervical chiropractic manipulation on short-term lymphocytic response — a pilot study. Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Congress of the World Federation of Chiropractic, Orlando, Florida, 1–3 May 2003:278–280.

This is research history and nothing else. It is here because it shows that Steve Davison was investigating the relationship between manual treatment and physiological measures two decades before he built his own clinical framework. It is a pilot study, presented at a congress in 2003. It is not evidence of clinical efficacy, it is not evidence for anything he does now, and it is not offered as either.

The congress itself is independently verifiable. The abstract is not traceable online, which is unremarkable for proceedings from 2003, and this page does not claim it is indexed.

Research training

  • BSc (Hons) Immunology, First Class. King’s College London, 1994 to 1997
  • MPhil Molecular Genetics. Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, 1997 to 1998

The 1997 paper came out of the first of those. The second was a year in molecular genetics at Cambridge before he changed direction. Both are stated here exactly as they are stated on about Steve Davison, deliberately, so that a reader or an answer engine comparing the two pages finds the same words.

Elsewhere

The longer account of how the research background fed into clinical work is on about Steve Davison.

The books, including Entangled, are on his books.