In this 60-minute video, Dr. Michael Gold, Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh, presents new strategies to leverage human tissue and cells for pain and analgesia research.

The purpose of this presentation is to remind investigators that there are many sources of tissue that may be used in the study of mechanisms of pain and analgesia. Attendees will learn:
• The value of good clinical colleagues
• The regulatory hurdles to access human tissue are not insurmountable
• Human tissue can be used for both discovery and validation
• Like all experimental approaches, researchers need to keep in mind weaknesses, as well as the strengths

The focus of Dr. Gold’s research is the neurobiology of pain. He has made important contributions to injury-induced plasticity in nociceptive afferents, and their contribution to the manifestation of persistent pain. Toward this end, he has employed an array of approaches ranging from the study of isolated cells to the development of novel behavioral assays with which to assess the presence of persistent hypersensitivity, and more recently the study of clinical populations suffering from persistent pain. Dr. Gold is actively involved in the greater pain community, most recently helping to form the U.S. Association for the Study of Pain.

To learn more about AnaBios human tissue and cells, as well as our functional assays, please visit http://www.anabios.com.