The mission of the Washington University Pain Center is to alleviate human suffering from pain through integration of research, education and clinical practice.



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Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution. (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine researchers, including Drs. Robert Gereau, Bryan Copits, and Juliet Mwirigi, were recently featured for their groundbreaking chronic pain research, advancing precision treatments and non-opioid therapies to improve patient care.
Mwirigi awarded HHMI fellowship for exceptional early-career scientists (Links to an external site)
Neuroscientist Juliet Mwirigi, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has been named a Hanna H. Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
WashU Medicine funded to develop new postdoctoral training program (Links to an external site)
Burel R. Goodin, a professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has received more than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support postdoctoral training.
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