
Heather Allen
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Postdoc in the Khanna lab | UF | Supraspinal modulation of chronic pain | Cats. Dogs. Food. Neuroscience.
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29-08-2018 17:15:17
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Excited that our Thursday #NBPostdocHighlight is in support of our NBPA member, Keisha Lewter. Dr. Lewter has been selected as a @bwf #PDEP awardee- presenting her work on the amygdala in bladder pain. #blackinstem #academictwitter #blackinx





Congratulations to the Neuroscience at UT Dallas annual faculty award winners: Drs. Anna Taylor (teaching), Crystal Engineer (teaching, TT) and @BenedictKolber (best paper of the year; Allen et al. Biological Psychiatry)! ☄️School of BBS at UTD



Thank you @KhannaLabNYU and Aubin Moutal for your invaluable guidance and support ❤️. Sincere thanks to all of the authors involved in this project 🫶🏻. I also appreciate the reviewers' invaluable input, which strengthened our work significantly ☺️.


Our article is now in press in PAIN Journal Intranasal CRMP2-Ubc9 inhibitor regulates NaV1.7 to... : PAIN journals.lww.com/pain/abstract/…

My proudest piece of grad school data is finally out! Please read if you are interested in dorsal horn interneurons, neuropathic pain, or conserved spinal targets for therapeutic drug development from mouse->human. This was a collaboration between Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research and Spinal Cord Group



Welcome to the swamp and UF_Pharmacology Dr. Rajesh Khanna of the KhannaLabUF! Excited to have you across the street.

Have you read the latest research uncovering the PBN -> CeA circuit's role in chronic pain by Torres and Rodriguez et al. from Yarimar Carrasquillo in Neuropsychopharmacology? Check out the Research Highlight shedding light on this pivotal pathway rdcu.be/dxlVF Tyler Nelson Heather Allen


And NOW in print form......Intranasal CRMP2-Ubc9 inhibitor regulates NaV1.7 to... : PAIN journals.lww.com/pain/abstract/… We also got the cover of PAIN Journal - image by Heather Allen And a commentary: UnCRMPing Nav1.7 to treat trigeminal neuropathic pain : PAIN journals.lww.com/pain/abstract/…



We’re happy to announce that Dr. Yarimar Carrasquillo (Yarimar Carrasquillo) of our Division of Intramural Research has been granted tenure! Dr. Carrasquillo studies the brain mechanisms underlying the complex experience of pain. Join us in celebrating this momentous milestone!


Thanks to NIH NCCIH, Dr. M. Catherine Bushnell, @NCCIH_David, NIDAnews, Yavin Shaham, and NIH Intramural for the opportunity, resources, and support.