Nader Ghasemlou
- Scientist, KGHRI
- Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine and Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University
- Tissue injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Multiple sclerosis
- Circadian biology
- Inflammation and pain
Ghasemlou Lab for Pain Chronobiology and Neuroimmunology
Dr. Nader Ghasemlou:
Dr. Ghasemlou leads a multi-disciplinary research team studying the contribution of the cellular and molecular immune response to diseases of the nervous system and skin, including spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory/neuropathic pain. He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2014) as a Banting Fellow at Harvard Medical School where he studied inflammatory and neuropathic pain and his Doctoral studies in Neuroimmunology at McGill University (2002-2008). Dr. Ghasemlou works in close collaboration with clinician-scientists at Kingston General Hospital and across Canada on these projects.
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital
PhD, McGill University
MSc, Queen’s University
Dr. Ghasemlou’s research focuses on better understanding interactions that occur between the nervous and immune systems, with a focus on injury and pain. His studies include:
• Identifying the mechanisms underlying diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system (such as multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and diabetic neuropathy) that contribute to inflammatory and neuropathic pain.
• Examining the influence of a patient’s biological “clock” on day night/rhythms of pain to better understand how these rhythms control the nervous and immune systems;
• Using tissue injury models to determine the effect of “first responder” immune cells on injury sites, and how these cells alter chronic and acute pain outcomes.
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