Research programs - overview

The Pain Management Research Institute (PMRI) comprises basic and translational researchers, and many members directly involved in clinical treatment, research and education programs. PMRI runs an intensive research program investigating mechanisms and treatment of a wide range of severe persistent pain problems that many people suffer.

Our research pursues the broad theme that persistent pain is a disease entity with its own symptoms, signs and underlying disorders such as abnormal sensory, spinal cord and brain neuronal physiology, neurochemistry, anatomy, and pathology.

The laboratories include the Brain, Behaviour & Society Research Laboratory, Cellular Physiology of Pain Research Laboratory, Pain Management Human Studies Group, Opioids and Neuropathic Pain Laboratory, Peripheral Mechanisms and Injury Laboratory and the Spinal Cord Injury Pain Clinical Research Laboratory.
For further details see the Kolling Institute Site

Pain Management Group

Group head

Professor Michael Cousins (Director)
T: 02 9926-8423
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Laboratories and their heads:

Brain Behaviour and Society Research Laboratory
Associate Prof Michael Nicholas
T: 02 9926-7894
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Cellular Research Laboratory
Dr Christopher Vaughan
T: 02 9926-4950
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Opioids and Neuropathic Pain Laboratory
Dr Peregrine Osborne
T: 02 9926-4961
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Pain Management Human Studies
Professor Michael Cousins
T: 02 9926-8423
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Peripheral Mechanisms and Injury Laboratory
Prof Janet Keast
T: 02 9926-4995
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Spinal Cord Injury Pain Clinical Research Laboratory
Associate Prof Philip Siddall
T: 02 9926-6387
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