Lab News
NIH funded an Outstanding Investigator Award (R35). UIC News
Xiaoyu's paper "CaMKIIα mediates the effect of IL-17 to promote ongoing spontaneous and evoked pain in multiple sclerosis" has been accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience.
Cedric Shi has joined the lab as a PhD student. Welcome, Cedric!
Tianzhuo Yao has joined the lab as a PhD student. Welcome, Tianzhuo!
Xiaoyu left the lab to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard/Broad Institute. Best Wishes, Xiaoyu!
Ying was awarded a Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00 HL133590-01A1) from the NIH. See UIC News
Xiaoyu received the Van Doren Scholar award at the College Research Day.
Ying's paper "PKCdelta-targeted intervention relieves chronic pain in a murine sickle cell disease model" was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2016 Vol 126
Paper "CaMKIIα underlies spontaneous and evoked pain behaviors in Berkeley sickle cell transgenic mice" is accepted by Pain. A number of current and former members contributed to this publication.
Nilanjana joined the lab as a graduate student (7/15/2016).
Xiaoyu and Ellie's paper "IL1A rs1800587 associates with chronic non-crisis pain in sickle cell disease" is accepted by Pharmacogenomics (7/7/2016)
Dr. Wang has been named a University Scholar (6/6/2016)
Ellie was offered a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics, University of Chicago (5/16/2016)
New R01 "Cortical Opioid Dysfunction in Chronic Pain” is funded by NIDA, NIH for 5 years.
Ellie passed the defense of her dissertation titled "Pain Pharmacogenetics of Sickle Cell Disease." Congratulations Dr. Jhun!!! (5/2/2016)
R01 HL098141 (Protein Kinase Mechanisms for Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease) is renewed by NIH for 4 years.
Xiaoyu's paper "PLGA-curcumin attenuates opioid-induced hyperalgesia and inhibits spinal CaMKIIα" has been accepted by PLOS ONE (12/28/2015)
The Journal of Neuroscience published a Journal Club article on our paper "Nociceptor βII, δ & ε isoforms of PKC differentially mediate paclitaxel-induced spontaneous and evoked pain," 2015 Vol35(28).
Ying's paper "Nociceptor βII, δ & ε isoforms of PKC differentially mediate paclitaxel-induced spontaneous and evoked pain" has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience (2/5/2015)
R01 “HL-Phenotypic Characterization of Chronic Pain in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease” is funded by NIH.