Please find details below for January’s Neuroscience Seminar Series:
Speaker: Dr Maria Maiaru, Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of ReadingTitle: LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF SILENCING PAIN PATHWAYS WITH NOVEL BOTULINUM CONSTRUCTSDate: 18 January 2024 4.00pm-5.00pmVenue: Microsoft Teams, in-person TBC Bio: Maria completed her undergraduate degree in pharmacy at the University Magna Graecia in Italy and then received a studentship from the European Union to conduct a PhD at the University of Calabria studying the involvement of autophagy in rodent models of neuropathic pain. She spent the last year of her PhD at UCL in London with Prof Steve Hunt and Dr Sandrine Géranton working on the role of the gene fkbp5 in chronic pain.
After completing her PhD, she was working as Researcher co-investigator on an MRC grant to test the analgesic properties of novel Botulinum constructs in different models of chronic pain in mice. In 2017 she received the IASP Early Career Research Grant to expand her research on autophagy and pain and in 2019 she was awarded a Rosetrees Trust grant to explore the role of autophagy in chemotherapy-induced pain. In March 2020 she was appointed to a Lectureship in Pharmacology at the University of Reading where her research group focusses on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying chronic pain states. In 2022 she was awarded a Springboard Fellowship (Academy of Medical Sciences) to test the analgesic properties of psychedelic drugs in preclinical models of human pain. We look forward to seeing you all there. Best wishes, Skip and Sarah ________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Click here to join the meeting Meeting ID: 390 523 924 662 Passcode: YYpHWA