Bijar Ghafouri
Professor, Head of Unit
I am professor in pain biochemistry with a focus on proteomics
Presentation
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
