The Taylor lab was recently awarded a Canadian Foundation for Innovation JELF award that will help establish a cutting edge Pain and Addiction Laboratory at the University of Alberta.

This award will be used to purchase equipment for an advanced rodent behavioural testing facility, as well as imaging and molecular tools that will help us investigate underlying mechanisms contributing to chronic pain and opioid addiction.

Our lab was recently profiled in Folio. You can read it here.

We wrote a commentary on the recent paper looking at learned conditioned pain sensitivity in male and females (Martin et al). This study describes a novel paradigm to investigate the intersection between memory, pain, and stress, and demonstrates that placing mice or humans in an environment that was previously associated with pain can lead to heightened sensitivity in the absence of a painful stimulus. We comment on the implications of these results with regards to pain in men and women.

Well done, Zoe, a first-year Taylor lab Master’s student, for taking the lead on this effort. You can read the full commentary here.