Originally published by the Rita Allen Foundation on August 9, 2016
Tuan Trang (Award in Pain Recipient) began his research career as an undergraduate at Queen’s University studying the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure. He also completed a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology there, researching the spinal mechanisms of opioid analgesia with the goal of developing new pharmacological strategies for improving pain therapy. He pursued postdoctoral training as a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Salter at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He has received a CIHR New Investigator Award, and young investigator awards from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience and Canadian Society for Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
