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📊 Over 100 million Americans live with chronic pain 🔬 Advancing the science of pain and migraine to improve lives 📢 Communicating our discoveries

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Researchers @ut_dallas are tackling one of the biggest mysteries in women’s health: what actually triggers endometriosis pain? Backed by a $3.4 million NIH grant, Kate Sadler, PhD, and Nicole De Nisco, PhD, are investigating how interactions between the reproductive microbiome and pain-sensing nerves drive chronic symptoms. This groundbreaking work could pave the way for targeted pain relief.

#Endometriosis #WomensHealth #MedicalResearch #chronicpainawareness by @utdpaincenter

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I remember your research, but not always your name. 🫠 I'm trying.

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#PainResearch #LabLife #Conferencelife by @utdpaincenter

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Did you know you have pain-sensing neurons that are basically asleep right now? 😴⚡️

Silent (or sleeping) nociceptors are specialized sensory nerve fibers in your skin that are unresponsive to normal everyday mechanical touch. But in chronic or neuropathic pain, they wake up, become hyperactive, and keep sending pain signals to the brain.

We collaborated with Dr. Angelika Lampert and her team to map out the molecular architecture of these elusive neurons! Check it out at https://utd.link/4fo 🧬

#chronicpain #painawarenessmonth #painneuroscience by @utdpaincenter

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Celebrating our F32 awardees!

A big shoutout to Ashley Plumb, PhD, and Sera I. Nakisli, PhD, on being awarded NIH F32 Kirschstein Research Training Fellowships!

🔹 Ashley Plumb, PhD, is exploring how stress-related shifts in the gut microbiome impact migrain susceptibility to open doors for personalized treatments.

🔹 Sera Nakisli, PhD, is bridging findings across mice, rats, and humans to improve preclinical models for diabetic neuropathy.

#NIH #ResearchExcellence #STEM #Fellowship by @utdpaincenter

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We’re expanding our team! 🧠⚡️

We are officially hiring for a Tenure-Track Faculty position in Computational Neuroscience, focusing on pain and peripheral neuropathy.

Over the past six years, we’ve built a robust ecosystem of resources and a collaborative environment designed to help you launch and elevate your independent research career. If you’re passionate about advancing the science of chronic pain and uncovering next-generation non-opioid therapeutics, this is your place.

Apply at https://utd.link/4g6

Know someone who’d be a perfect fit? Tag them below or share this post! 📲

#ComputationalNeuroscience #AcademicJobs #PainResearch #FacultyHiring by @utdpaincenter

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We had a great Works in Progress seminar last week, led by Khadijah Mazhar, PhD, who presented "Nociceptors in Cancer."

She presented her recent work, which uses single-cell transcriptomics to predict how tumor cells drive nerve sprouting across cancers, highlighting potential molecular targets to slow disease progression and relieve cancer-associated pain.

#cancerresearch #painneuroscience #translationalmedicine by @utdpaincenter

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We’re hiring! 🔬✨

Join Dr. Diana Tavares-Ferreira's lab as a Laboratory Technician / Research Assistant investigating the mechanisms of pain and peripheral neuropathy.

This role offers hands-on wet lab experience, mentorship, and publication opportunities, making it an ideal stepping stone for recent graduates planning to apply to PhD or MD programs.

Learn more at UTD.link/4ee

#Hiring #LabJobs #ResearchAssistant #Neuroscience #PreMed by @utdpaincenter

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We are proud to share that Dr. Ted Price, director of our Center, has won the Technology Inventor Award from the The Technology Association for North Texas.

This honor recognizes pioneers across North Texas responsible for breakthrough ideas, processes, or products that advance their disciplines. Dr. Price’s drive to push the boundaries of pain neurobiology and therapeutic discovery continues to lead our entire team forward. Every milestone like this brings us one step closer to transforming pain management and improving lives.

Congratulations to all of the inspiring North Texas finalists recognized this year: Tanmay Bera, PhD (Phylactics), Dane Grasse, PhD (Teliatry), and Andrew Silver (Tango Networks). Thank you for championing innovation in our region!

#UTDallas #Neuroscience #ChronicPain #NorthTexasTech #Biotechnology by @utdpaincenter

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🏆🎉 Huge congratulations to our 17 CAPS undergraduates who earned awards at this year's Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)!

SPUR serves as a campus-wide symposium showcasing the innovative summer projects of @ut_dallas student researchers. We are incredibly proud of our students’ hard work. The future of pain neuroscience research is looking bright! 🌟🧠

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#undergraduateresearch #painresearch by @utdpaincenter

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Thank you to Kayli Colpitts for opening our Fall Seminar Series with a delightful and informative talk: "How pain hurts: Adverse effects of nociception after spinal cord injury (SCI)"

Kayli will be defending her dissertation this fall and we look forward to hearing about your future discoveries. Hope to see you soon 👀!

#chronicpainresearch #chronicpainawareness by @utdpaincenter

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So incredibly proud of Dr. Ashley Plumb — she just received an NIH F32 grant! This is the first F32 award for the Sadler Lab and only the third such active award at @ut_dallas !

The F32 is a competitive postdoctoral fellowship awarded by @nihgov — Ashley’s $156,128 grant will fund the next two years of her salary in the Sadler Lab. During this time Ashley will study how stress-induced changes in the gut microbiome contribute to migraine headache susceptibility and development. Huge shout out to Ashley’s co-sponsor and migraine expert, Dr. Greg Dussor, for help with model development and for asking the hard questions during application preparation! We can’t wait to see what Ashley learns over the next two years — stay tuned! 💩🤕

#migraine #microbiome by @utdpaincenter

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