Shafaq Sikandar

Prof Shafaq Sikandar

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Professor Shafaq Sikandar is the group leader of the Sensory Neurophysiology lab at the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and the London, United Kingdom. Her research training was based on rodent and human models to study the neurophysiology of pain. Shafaq completed her PhD training in the Pharmacology department of University College London, and continued postdoctoral training in the Anaesthesiology department of University of California San Diego and in the Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research of University College London using translational paradigms to study nociceptive processing in rodent and human experimental pain.

She was awarded a Versus Arthritis Fellowship and established her research group in 2018. The Sensory Neurophysiology laboratory conducts preclinical and clinical programmes of research related to pain in cancer, fibromyalgia, arthritis, epidermolysis bullosa and pain after surgery, with a particular focus on the neuro-immune axis and endogenous modulation of pain. Shafaq teaches on undergraduate and graduate courses at Queen Mary University of London, is a Trustee of the British Pain Society and Guest Editor for Communications Biology.