Research
Metrics: H-factor 34, citations: 5000
Research grants
Pain Mechanisms in long-Covid
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2022 - April 2025
Identifying molecular mechanisms underlying pain relief response to physiotherapy in people with osteoarthritis
VERSUS ARTHRITIS (UK)
September 2023 - August 2026
A Randomised Controlled Trial to investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Paravertebral Blockade compared with Thoracic Epidural Blockade in reducing Chronic Post-Thoracotomy Pain (TOPIC II)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
May 2018 - November 2022
Equipment
PAIN RELIEF FOUNDATION (UK)
December 2020 - November 2021
Autoimmunity-Informed Phentoyyping in Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain Sufferers
PAIN RELIEF FOUNDATION (UK)
June 2020 - November 2022
Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist treatment for refractory complex regional pain syndrome (INCA)
THE EDELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION (USA)
April 2020 - October 2024
A randomised patient-assessor blinded sham controlled trial of External non-invasive peripheral nerve stimulation for chronic neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve injury” – the EN-PENS trial
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
June 2016 - May 2020
Pain evoked by passive transfer of IgG from fibromyalgia patients to mice
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2018 - October 2021
'Molecular Mechanisms of CRPS Pain'
ARTHRITIS RESEARCH UK
April 2017 - March 2020
Pain Relief Infrastructure support - Serena Sensi
PAIN RELIEF FOUNDATION (UK)
September 2019 - August 2022
Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for longstanding complex regional pain syndrome
BIOTEST AG (GERMANY), DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
December 2012 - July 2018
Research collaborations
Walter Magerl
University of Heidelberg and Mannheim, Germany
EN-PNS trial and LTD-studies
Selina Johnson
Clinical studies in neuropathic pain and CRPS
Geoff Woods
University of Cambridge
Genetics of primary chronic pains
David Andersson
King's College London
Nociceptor function in models of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Sarosh Irani
University of Oxford
Autoantibody assessment in primary chronic pain
Andrew Marshall
Psychophysics assessment of primary chronic pains
Uazman Alam
Small fiber assessment in FMS
Rob Moots
Clinical Trials with Immune Drugs, Behcet Disease Studies
Dean Naisbitt
Adaptive immune system in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Zsuzsanna Helyes
University of Pecs, Hungary
Development and definition of a passive-transfer trauma rodent model for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Turo Nurmikko
EN-PNS trial, brain stimulation, sensory nerve function in CRPS