Public Education and Pain Awareness

The Pain Institute also aims to promote the public awareness of pain and its importance in the medical community. We have produced some public materials and publications to promote public education in this aspect. Occasionally courses and conferences are also held in public libraries and venues to further the purpose.

Postgraduate Study

Prospective postgraduate students interested in pain research can contact us by phone or email. 

Current and past graduate students:

PhD students

Feng, Xianglan (2022-2025)

Thesis title: "Generation of dorsal spinal GABAergic neurons from human urine cells by direct reprogramming for the treatment of central neuropathic pain"

Liu, Jingjing (2021-2025)

Thesis title: "The effects of short-term dietary patterns on the acute postoperative pain model in mice"

Yu, Ying (2020-2025)

Thesis title: "The effect of intermittent fasting for neuropathic pain relieving: from peripheral to central"

Chen, Yonglong (2020-2024)

Thesis title: "Phosphorylated SOX9 drives neuroinflammatory astrocyte subtypes by boosting hexokinase 1 in neuropathic pain"

Shan, Zhiming (2021-2024)

Thesis title: "A novel analgesic development strategy: targeting NRF2 as an upstream regulator for Nav1.7 inhibition"

Yu, Jing (2017-2021)

Thesis title: "Inactivation of Kaiso-P2X7R as a key mechanism for high frequency spinal cord stimulation to mitigate inflammatory response in neuropathic pain"

Fan, Tingting (2017-2021)

Thesis title: "The non-genomic action of histone deacetylase 5 in astrocytes in painful diabetic neuropathy"

Gu, Pan (2015-2017)

Thesis title: "The epigenetic regulations in peripheral neuropathic pain in mice"

Qiu, Qiu (2012-2016)

Thesis title: "Analgesic effects of propofol on acute postoperative pain and the underlying mechanisms"

Tai, Wai Lydia (2013-2016)

Thesis title: "Role and mechanism of endothelin in the central nervous system in neuropathic pain"

Luo, Xin (2011-2015)

Thesis title: "The role of CXCL12/CXCR4 axis in central mechanisms of pathological pain"

MPhil students

Lee, Un Man Queenie (2015-2017)

Thesis title: "Intrathecal administration of RhoA and ROCK inhibitors reduces inflammatory hyperalgesia in DLC2-deflicient mice"

Chen, Samantha (2009-2011)

Thesis title: "The effect of astrocytic endothelin-1 in modulating inflammatory pain processing"

Tai, Wai Lydia (2009-2011)

Thesis title:"Involvement of astrocytic endothelin-1 in neuropathic pain processing: a pain-behavioral and gene expression profiling study"

Liman, Suryamin Michael (2008-2011)

Thesis title: "Ketamine in chronic post-ischemia pain (CPIP) model of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I in sprague-Dawley (SD) rats"

Liu, Jie (2006-2008)

Thesis title: "Intranasal Dexmedetomidine for sedation"