Massive thanks to everyone involved! Especially, the Bennett group @ndcnoxford.bsky.social and the Newstead team @kavlioxford.bsky.social @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Big shout out to my co-first author @sigurbjornm.bsky.social!
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SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter - Nature
The SLC45A4 gene encodes a neuronal polyamine transporter and is linked to pain response in humans and mice.
We've found a new gene linked to chronic pain in humans! The gene SLC45A4 encodes (the long-awaited) neuronal polyamine transporter, which is important for pain signalling in nerves. We hope this discovery might lead to new chronic pain treatments in the future!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📣 NEW: Breakthrough discovery of a genetic link to pain co-led by NDCN's Prof David Bennett and Prof Simon Newstead @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social
The results of the research, published in @nature.com, could lead to a promising new target for the treatment of #chronicpain.
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chaotically postdocing • UniWien & UTDallas, previously UniOxford | pain, proteomics, multi-omics & open science | chronic migraines | raised on unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory | she/they 🌈🍉
Assistant professor at Saint Louis University. Mechanisms of autoimmunity leading to chronic pain.
The Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford
Catalysing discovery by bringing the physical sciences into the cell.
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Structural Biology DPhil student - Oxford, Newstead lab. Interested in membrane protein structural biology.
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Research Fellow, King's College London
Studying the neurobiological mechanisms of arthritis pain
Postdoc * Saad Nagi lab * Linköping University * Neurophysiology of touch and pain * Electrophysiology
Our lab researches changes in the nervous system that lead to chronic pain and tries to develop strategies to reverse them. We’re interested in everything to do with sensory neurons- what they do, where they signal to, and what cells they interact with.
Identifying the neural basis of innate social behaviors using molecular and genetic tools @Harvard @HHMINEWS
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Neurology registrar/resident 🩺👩⚕️ and NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer 🧠 in NDCN, University of Oxford UK, working on ALS/MND in the Talbot research group 🧫🔬 @MNDOxford.bsky.social
World-leading programmes in basic, translational and clinical neuroscience research at the University of Oxford.
Assistant Professor @ UT Southwestern Medical Center. Neural circuits for touch and pain sensation. www.schoilab.org
Neuroscientist studying mechanical interoception. Views are my own.
Doing great science by putting people first Neuroscience group protecting axons sciencewithoutanguish.com
Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
Coach supporting scientists to get more clarity on their goals and move toward them
Dad, husband and pain scientist. Better guard me beyond the arc. Education should not cause debt
My team and I study why pain can become chronic. We like the peripheral nervous system, neuroimmunology, stromal cells and sequencing. If you have similar interests - please say hi!
