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    3800 Melbourne

    Australia

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Biography

A/Prof Wendy Imlach is head of the Pain Mechanisms lab in the Department of Physiology at Monash University and the Deputy Head of the Neuroscience Program in the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.  Her research is focused on neural circuits in the spinal cord that are activated in chronic pain, in an effort to identify new therapeutic targets. She obtained her PhD in Pharmacology in New Zealand from the University of Otago and held postdoctoral positions at Columbia University in New York, and in Australia at the University of Queensland and University of Sydney. Wendy has a background in neuropharmacology, synaptic physiology and neural circuitry and her laboratory investigates spinal dorsal horn circuitry and nociceptive signalling.

Research interests

Our research focuses on changes that happen within the pain processing pathways in the spinal cord following the development of chronic pain. Some of these changes are potential therapeutic targets and we are interested in finding new, more effective ways to treat chronic pain. 

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Research area keywords

  • Pain
  • Spinal cord
  • Neural circuitry
  • Neuropharmacology

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