June 27, 2002
Pain of neuropathy
Dr. Marshall Devor, a professor and laboratory head at the Institute of Life Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will present the 17th annual Gunn-Loke Lecture at 5 p.m., Tuesday, July 9, in room T-747 of the Health Sciences Center.
The lecture, titled “Neural Mechanisms of Pain in Neuropathy,” is sponsored by the School of Medicine and the UW Multidisciplinary Pain Center, and supported by an endowment established by Dr. and Mrs. C. Chan Gunn of Vancouver, B.C. Gunn is a UW clinical professor of anesthesiology. The event is free and open to the public.
Devor is former chair of the Department of Cell and Animal Biology and also a researcher at the Center for Research of Pain, both at Hebrew University.
He is a graduate of Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. through the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He was a postdoctoral fellow in London at University College. This year he is a visiting scholar at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
His work has contributed to a better understanding of the basis of neuropathic pain, or pain caused by damage to nerves or nervous system disease. His laboratory’s work has been published extensively in the field of pain research, with work that includes neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, genetics and animal behavior.
