Pierre Sacre, postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Drs. William S. Anderson, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Sridevi Sarma, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is the recipient of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Neurosurgery Pain Research Institute (NPRI) Scholar Award for his project entitled, “Towards Pain Control: Developing a Computational Model of the Dorsal Horn Circuit.” The goal of this research is to construct, for the first time, a tractable computational model of the dorsal horn circuit consistent with experimental data, which will be used to analyze and test how different sensory stimuli and therapies modulate pain perception.

The NPRI Award, designed to fund those interested in pain research training while under the direction of a Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery faculty member, will support Pierre’s development and analysis of a detailed, yet reduced model of the pain system for up to two years.

Congratulations, Pierre!