德里克Molliver, Ph.D.

德里克Molliver received his B.A. from Williams College in 1988 and went on to complete his 博士学位 in Neuroscience at Washington University in St. 路易斯在1997年, studying the role of neurotrophic factors in the specification of peripheral sensory neuron identity with Dr. 威廉·斯奈德. He received postdoctoral training with Dr. Ed McCleskey at the Vollum Institute of Oregon 健康 and 科学 University, examining the contributions of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling to the sensitization of the peripheral sensory neurons that give rise to the sensation of pain (nociceptors). Dr. Molliver then moved to the University of Pittsburgh, where he was appointed in 2006 to Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology and Neurobiology as a member of the newly created Pittsburgh Center for Pain 研究. While at the University of Pittsburgh, he managed an NIH-funded research program studying neurotrophic factor and GPCR signaling mechanisms regulating nociceptor plasticity. Dr. Molliver joined the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in the Department of Biomedical 科学s as an Associate Professor in the spring of 2014, and was promoted to Professor in 2020. Current R01-funded projects focus on GPCR signaling networks that regulate sensory neuron response properties, and how mechanisms that regulate mitochondrial function in response to cell stress alter neuronal response properties and resilience to injury.