Rohini Kuner

Rohini Kuner is a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University, Germany. She received a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Iowa (USA) in 1995, gained postdoctoral experience at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Heidelberg), led a DFG-financed independent junior group, and has been a full Professor since 2006 and Institute Director since 2009 at Heidelberg University. Her research spans cellular, molecular, and network mechanisms of plasticity in chronic pain. Her work has elucidated the molecular basis of structural remodelling of neural circuits over the transition to chronic pain, identified novel molecular mediators of tumour-nerve interactions, and bridged the fields of non-pharmacological neuromodulation-based therapies and neurobiology. She leads a large DFG-financed consortium on chronic pain (www.sfb1158.de), spanning more than 40 preclinical and clinical research groups, and has been awarded two ERC