Dr. Brian Cairns from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is one of three recipients of the 2012 Pfizer Canada Pain Research Awards. The awards provide funding grants to outstanding research that has the potential to improve the quality of life for people living with pain.
Cairns will research whether glutamate can activate the nerve fibers that are responsible for headache pain and whether natural elevation of glutamate levels is part of the mechanism that initiates headaches. To read more, click here.
