Description
This webinar will provide an opportunity to discuss the value of human molecular-omics data for reconstructing human pain states with subsequent mechanistic animal experiment. Dr. Luda Diatchenko, MD, PhD will be presenting new data from her program for the first 40 min, and Dr. Jefferey Mogil, PhD will moderate the discussion.
Contributors
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Luda Diatchenko, MD, PhD
Luda Diatchenko, MD, PhD is a Professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, and Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, at McGill University. She is a Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Human Pain Genetics and currently a Canada Research Chair in Human Pain Genetics. Dr. Diatchenko earned her MD and PhD in the field of Molecular Biology from the Russian State Medical University. Dr. Diatchenko started her career in industry, she was a Leader of the RNA Expression Group at Clontech, Inc., and subsequently, Director of Gene Discovery at Attagene, Inc. During this time, Dr. Diatchenko was actively involved in the development of several widely-used and widely-cited molecular tools for the analysis of gene expression and regulation. Her research since then is focused on determining the genetic mechanisms that impact and shape human pain perception and risk of development of chronic pain conditions, enabling new approaches to identify new drug targets, treatment responses to analgesics, and diagnostics. In total, Dr. Diatchenko has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed research papers in journals, 10 book chapters, and edited a book in human pain genetics.
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Jeffrey Mogil, PhD
Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, is the E. P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies and the Canada Research Chair in the Genetics of Pain at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has made seminal contributions to the field of pain genetics and has written many reviews on the subject. He is the editor of The Genetics of Pain (IASP Press, 2004). Dr. Mogil also studies sex differences in pain and analgesia, and is known for developing pain testing methods in the laboratory mouse. He is also Director of the North American Pain School (NAPS). He was the neurobiology section editor for the journal PAIN and was chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the 2010 13th World Congress on Pain. Dr. Mogil is a recipient of the Patrick D. Wall Young Investigator Award from IASP, and in 2013 he won the Frederick W.L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award from the American Pain Society.
DISCLOSURE: Nothing to disclose.