Current members:
Thiago Cunha
from University of Sao Paulo
Project: Spinal meningeal neuroimmune interactions in chronic pain
Ning Gu
Project: Mechanisms underlying spinal cord plasticity
Weihua Cai
Project: Role of the gut microbiome in the pathophysiology of pain and other symptoms of fibromyalgia
Vibhu Kumar
Co-supervised by Yoram Shir
Project: Gut microbiome in chronic pain
Volodya Hovhannisyan
Project: Lymphatics in chronic pain
Nicole Brown
Project: Polymorphisms in APOE gene in chronic pain
Jonathan Fan
Project: Transcriptional and functional heterogeneity of spinal projection neurons
David Ho-Tieng
Project: Integrated stress response in depression
Bíborka Balázs
Project: Spinal neuroimmune interactions in chronic pain
Olivia Farkas
Project: Unbiased analysis of immune cell interactions in chronic pain
Haoran Wu
Project: Lymphatics in chronic pain
Past members
- Julia D'Adamo (NSCI 396), Winter 2017
- Sean Tabarah (NSCI 396), Winter 2017
- Lee Meluban (COGS 444), Winter 2018
- Shelly Yin, Fall 2017-Winter 2018
- Sonali Uttam, MSc, 2017-2019
- Jordyn Heal, volunteer, 2018-2019
- Neil Wu, Research assistant, 2019-2020
- Laura Neagu-Lund, Summer research student, 2019-2020
- Mariam Latif (ANAT 396), 2019-2020.
- Patricia Roques, PhD, 2017-2021
- Alba Ureña Guzmán, Msc, 2020-2022
- Carolina Thörn Pérez, Research Associate, 2020-2022
- Shannon Tansley, PhD, 2017-2022
- Mehdi Hooshmandi, PhD, 2017-2023
- Calvin Wong, PhD, 2017-2024
- Kevin Lister, PhD, 2019-2024
- Camden Wong, undergraduate internship, 2025
- Matthew Loukine, IPN rotation graduate student, 2025
