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August 2024: Seven members from the Department of Symptom Research attended the 2024 World Congress on Pain in Amsterdam, August 5-9. This meeting brought together more than 6,500 scientists, clinicians, and health care providers from around the world and across pain disciplines. The Symptom Research group was featured across three workshop sessions and six poster presentations. Grace Lab contributors included:
- Peter Grace, Ph.D., Principal Investigator:
- Presentation workshop: Emerging Roles for Autoantibodies in Chronic Pain
- Nathan Fiore, Ph.D., Research Scientist:
- Presentation workshop: NeuPSIG: Burning Topics in Neuropathic Pain
- Kendal Willcox, M.S. Senior Research Investigator:
- Poster presentation: Contributions of B Cells to Allodynia Induced by Different Models of Traumatic Nerve Injury
June 2024: Nathan Fiore, Ph.D., a Research Scientist in the Grace Lab, won second place in the basic science poster competition at MD Anderson's 2024 Division of Internal Medicine research retreat. Dr. Fiore's poster was entitled "Accelerating clearance of IgG via neonatal Fc gamma receptor blockade relieves neuropathic pain."
February 2024: Rafael Cazuza, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Grace Lab, was selected to join the North American Pain School in Quebec, Canada, a highly competitive international learning program for trainees in pain research that seeks to develop technical and networking skills. The program's 2024 theme is "Prevention, Treatment, or Cure?"
August 2023: Sami Rasheed, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Grace Lab, won first place in the best poster awards by the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine Education and Research Day, August 15, 2023.
June 2022: Sami won 2nd place in the Basic Science Poster competition. at the MD Anderson Division of Internal Medicine Research Retreat.
May 2022: Sami was honored by the United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP). He was invited to give an oral presentation at the USASP Annual Scientific Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, for which he also received a trainee travel award. In addition, he was featured in the Trainee Spotlight section of the USASP November newsletter.
May 2022: Michael Lacagnina, an Instructor in the Grace Lab, won the Cyrus Scholar Award for Basic Research at the MD Anderson Division of Internal Medicine June 2022 Research Retreat. The Cyrus Award provides two competitive awards, each for $15,000 ($5,000 each year for three years) to an outstanding basic researcher and a clinical researcher.
March 2020: Jiahe Li, a Research Scientist in the Grace Lab, was lead author of our 2020 article in Anesthesiology that was covered by the Pain Research Forum. Her work shows that dimethyl fumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug, has therapeutic effects in a rodent model of neuropathic pain.