Heavner Basic Science Lectureship

Allan-Hermann Pool is an Assistant Professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) where his lab studies cellular mechanisms mediating central pain and pain relief states and develops new cell-type specific therapeutic
avenues to target these circuit nodes. Dr. Pool received his PhD from UC Berkeley where he dissected hunger circuits in the fruit fly.

He went on to perform postdoctoral work at California Institute of Technology where he discovered mammalian central sensory neurons detecting the need for water and minerals. His lab at UTSW deploys high-throughput cellular methods to discover pain and pain-relief engaged neuron types, dissects their functional role in driving adaptive and maladaptive pain behaviors and develops antibody and viral methods to render these circuits precisely druggable.