Presenting on "The role of spinal microglial activation in neuropathic pain (animal models)"

Makoto Tsuda, PhD is a Professor at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan). He earned a PhD in the field of Pharmacology from the Hoshi University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1998. He worked as a post-doctoral fellowship in Dr. Kazuhide Inoue’s lab at the National Institute of Health Science (Tokyo, Japan) and in Prof. Michael Salter’s lab at the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada). Dr. Tsuda’s academic career started in 2005 at the Kyushu University. His main research interest is to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic pain and itch, with a focus on glia-neuron interactions in the nervous system, especially spinal cord and brain.