For Release: February 26, 2009
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DMS Researcher Recognized for Pain Scholarship
Dr. Joyce DeLeo
Hanover, N.H.—Dartmouth Medical School pain scientist Dr. Joyce DeLeo has won the American Pain Society's 2009 Frederick W. L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award.
A professor of pharmacology and toxicology and of anesthesiology, DeLeo is recognized for her outstanding contributions to the field of pain. She will be honored May 7 at the Society's annual scientific meeting in San Diego, CA.
DeLeo is the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Pharmacology and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at DMS. Her work on mechanisms of pain control could yield novel approaches for alleviating and preventing pain. She studies nervous system (glia) and immune cells, and how their functions may be modulated to develop new targets for drug therapy to treat acute and chronic pain.
A leader in research and education, DeLeo is director of the interdisciplinary Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, which she helped develop. She is also co-director of a translational neuroscience postdoctoral training program and was active in establishing the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (PEMM) for graduate training at DMS.
DeLeo earned a BS in biology and chemistry from the University of New York at Albany and a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Following a post-doctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Harvard, she came to Dartmouth as a post-doctoral fellow in the Anesthesia Research Laboratory, and has been a Dartmouth faculty member since 1991.
The research award was established in 1987 to honor Frederick W. L. Kerr, a founder of the American Pain Society. It is presented annually for individual excellence and achievement in pain scholarship.
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