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PI Profie - Luda Diatchenko

Dr. Diatchenko earned her MD and PhD from the Russian State Medical University. Her career began in industry at Clontech, Inc. and then Attagene, Inc. where she was actively involved in developing widely-used and highly-cited molecular tools for gene expression and gene regulation analysis. In 2000, as Visiting and then Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina, she established a research program focused on determination of the cellular and molecular biological mechanisms by which functional genetic variations impact human pain. Her work to translate this knowledge to the clinic enables new approaches to identify drug targets, treatment responses to analgesics, and diagnostics. In 2013, Dr. Diatchenko was awarded a prestigious Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Human Pain Genetics. She is currently a Professor in the Faculties of Dentistry and Medicine at McGill University and an active member of Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain (AECRP). Since 2013, Dr. Diatchenko has directed highly productive research program at McGill, collaborating locally and across Quebec, Canada, and internationally. In total, Dr. Diatchenko have authored or co-authored over 140 peer-reviewed research papers in journals, 10 book chapters, and edited a book in human pain genetics (h-factor = 59). She is a member and an active officer of several national and international scientific societies, including the International Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society.

A global leader in human pain genetics, Dr. Diatchenko uses state-of-the-art genome-wide omics approaches to study chronic pain mechanisms and risk factors by analyzing well-characterized pain patient populations. Dr. Diatchenko’s track record in the identification of the genetic components of chronic pain, her expertise in new technologies in molecular genetics and gene targeting, and the immediate relevance of her research to the identification of potential therapeutic targets has received a broad international scientific and media recognition.

Please visit the lab website: https://humanpaingenetics.org/lab/

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