Chicago Center for Translational Research in Musculoskeletal Pain

The goal of this P30 proposal is to establish a Center to facilitate and support Research and Training in mechanisms underlying musculoskeletal pain, with the ultimate goal to better manage or prevent chronic musculoskeletal pain. Dr. Richard J Miller is a professor in the department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry at the Northwestern University Medical School. Dr. Richard Miller will carry out work as follows. 1) Serve as PI of the Neurobiology Core C 2) Manage the services to be offered by Core C including: calcium imaging, electrophysiology, chemogenetics, neuroanatomy and transcriptomics of peripheral nervous system. 3) Work with associate director Dr. Rick Sumner to provide overall leadership, goal setting, quality assurance, and executive decisions regarding addition, change or removal of services