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Bijar Ghafouri

Professor, Head of Unit

I am professor in pain biochemistry with a focus on proteomics

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Bijar Ghafouri is a pre-clinical Professor of biochemistry of chronic pain with a focus on proteomics at department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, division of Prevention, Rehabilitation and Community Medicine. She graduated from Faculty of Science and Engineering 2001 and completed her PhD at Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 2005. She is director of third-cycle education at department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences. She is also head of PAINOMICS laboratory at the division of Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine. Professor Ghafouri has co-authored more than 100 articles, reviews, and posters on clinical biomarkers with a major interest in chronic pain. She is an editor of Scientific Reports and reviews for many peer-reviewed journals. Her main research interest is investigating molecular “signature” of chronic pain using omics. She supervises undergraduate students and doctoral students in the research field of clinical biomarkers

Publications

2025

Niklas Lofgren, Per-Jonas Blind, Hanna Nystrom, Bijar Ghafouri, Mikael Oman, Oskar Hemmingsson (2025) Surface microdialysis to monitor hepatic metabolism in liver surgery HPB, Vol. 27, p. 930-936 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Gavin N. Petrie, Raegan Mary Rose Mazurka, Elisabeth Paul, Niclas Stensson, Bijar Ghafouri, Matthew N. Hill, Markus Heilig, Leah Mayo (2025) Effects of acute alcohol administration on endocannabinoids and relation to subjective effects Psychopharmacology (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Mika Jönsson, Emmanuel Bäckryd, Stefan Ljunggren, Nina Ottosson, Amaia Jauregi Miguel, Sara Liin, Antonio Checa, Craig E. Wheelock, Bijar Ghafouri (2025) System-wide targeted analysis of oxylipins and lipoproteins in chronic peripheral neuropathic pain-an explorative study Pain Reports, Vol. 10, Article e1305 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Hajer Jasim, Bijar Ghafouri, Malin Ernberg (2024) The diurnal pattern of cytokines, chemokines and growth factors in human saliva-a pilot study FRONTIERS IN DENTAL MEDICINE, Vol. 5, Article 1420081 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Linn Ronne-Petersen, Maria Niemi, Harald Walach, Catharina Lavebratt, Liu L. Yang, Björn Gerdle, Bijar Ghafouri, Torkel Falkenberg (2024) Exploring emotional well-being, spiritual, religious and personal beliefs and telomere length in chronic pain patients-A pilot study with cross-sectional design PLOS ONE, Vol. 19, Article e0308924 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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