Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, United States
Dr. Ji is a distinguished Professor of Duke University and Professor of Anesthesiology, Cell Biology and Neurobiology at Duke Medical Center. He is also Director of Center for Translational Pain Center (CTPM). He has been working on mechanisms and therapeutics of chronic pain for over 25 years, which has resulted in 240 publications. His lab studies how glial cells and immune cells regulate the pathogenesis and resolution of pain. His research has contributed to several pain research areas including “glial modulation”, “neuroimmune interactions”, and “inflammation and neuroinflammation”. He has promoted the resolution concept of pain by demonstrating the role of specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) and their receptors in different cell types for pain control. In his earlier career, he studied how MAP kinase pathways (ERK, p38, and JNK) regulate inflammatory and neuropathic pain via peripheral and central sensitization. His recently work demonstrated novel role of STING/interferon pathway and PD-L1/PD-1 checkpoint pathway in pain control. Dr. Ji received his PhD from Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He had postdoctoral trainings in Peking University, Karolinska Institute, and Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Duke University, he had been a faculty member of Harvard Medical School for 12 years. Dr. Ji is a highly cited global researcher in the past 5 years (Clarivate).
Neuroinflammation and Immunotherapy in Pain
Sunday, November 12, 2023
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM PT
Disclosure(s): Boston Scientific Inc: Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
