Ipek Yalcin, PharmD, PhD   

Dr. Yalcin is a Research Director at CNRS, France. She leads “Neuroanatomy, Pain & Psychopathology” team at the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience in Strasbourg.  She is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Université Laval.  Since she obtained a tenure researcher position at CNRS in 2010, she works on the comorbidity between chronic pain and mood disorders by bringing together her PhD and postdoctoral expertise in a new and independent research axis. She has 68 publications, 6 book chapters and two patents. She has received several awards including Young Investigator Awards from NARSAD, Young Talent Award from the University of Strasbourg, Prix Guy Ourisson and medal bronze from CNRS. She is a senior Editor of Neuropharmacology and is on the editorial boards of further journals in Pain Field.