Nicolas Dumaire

After completing a BSc and an MSc in pharmacology at the Universite Clermont-Auvergne, Nicolas Dumaire took on the challenge of a PhD abroad, which brought him to Saint Louis University (Missouri) to work on the identification of new pain pathways, with the hope of treating chronic pain without resorting to opioid therapies. More specifically, the work concerns the endocytic complex regulating the trafficking of the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.8 at the membrane. As this channel is heavily involved in acute and chronic pain, its regulation is a promising target for antinociceptive drugs. He is trained in rodent surgery and behaviour assessment, confocal microscopy, and cellular biochemistry.