Speaker: Dr. Nader Ghasemlou

Moderator: Dr. Mojgan Hodaie

Dr. Nader Ghasemlou is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Biomedical & Molecular Sciences at Queen’s University, where he leads the Pain Chronobiology & Neuroimmunology Lab, and is director of the Tissue Inflammation and Regeneration Research Excellence Cluster and Interdisciplinary Pain Neuroimmunology group. His research team, which will be joining the Krembil Brain Institute and University of Toronto this Spring, uses a translational approach to study the intersection of neuroimmunology, pain physiology, and circadian biology.

Research in Dr. Ghasemlou's lab uses various animal models of injury and disease, including postoperative wounds, neuropathic nerve injury, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injury to better understand the molecular, cellular, and behavioural responses underlying human disease. The group is particularly focused on dissecting the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the generation and maintenance of inflammation in the central and peripheral nervous system. All projects in the lab include bioinformatics to identify genes/pathways regulating cell function, and patient cohort studies via the CircaHealth Research Network (circahealth.ca) to provide a translational component to their work.