Author Archives: Lauren McKibben

Simran has been working in the lab for the past three years as an undergraduate researcher studying serum-based biomarkers for chronic pain development after trauma in our human cohort studies. She has decided to pursue her PhD at UGA where she will study neurodegeneration. Simran graduates from UNC with a...

Meghna has been working in the lab for the past two years as an undergraduate researcher on projects ranging from testing progesterone expression in rats to helping to analyze RNA sequencing data from our rodent model of chronic posttraumatic pain. After deliberating between UNC and Johns Hopkins’ programs in public...

Dr. McKibben attended the annual NIH HEAL (Help End Addiction Long-term) meeting last week in Bethesda, Maryland. While there she presented two of our lab’s posters, one focused on RNA expression signatures following stress exposure and the other focused on her work examining early life adversity and mechanisms through which...

Dr. Linnstaedt and collaborators submitted an R61 grant application to further develop FKBP51 inhibitors as potential therapeutics for post traumatic chronic pain.  Dr. McKibben submitted a K99/R00 application to fund her research focused on early life adversity as a risk factor for pain after trauma. 

Erica presented her work on methylation of the POMC gene, Simran presented her work on biological sample processing in the AURORA study, Tina presented her work on pain prediction models using machine learning techniques, and Lauren presented her work on the relationship between early life adversity and chronic pain.