Dr. Chloe J. Peach is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Nigel Bunnett at the NYU Pain Research Center and in the Department of Molecular Pathobiology (NYU College of Dentistry). She completed her undergraduate studies in Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham (U.K.). Funded by the British Pharmacological Society’s prestigious A.J. Clark Scholarship, she obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology as part of the Centre of Membrane Proteins and Receptors with Dr. Stephen Hill and Dr. Jeanette Woolard. Her graduate studies identified novel distinctions in how growth factors interact with receptor tyrosine kinases and other cell surface proteins involved in tumor angiogenesis. This was recognized by the University’s Ian Tomlin Prize and the national Vogt Prize in Pharmacology. Moving to New York University, she then shifted focus to the field of pain, studying non-opioid receptors involved in chronic pain as alternative strategies for analgesia without the devastating side effects. Dr. Peach’s current work will investigate growth factors involved in nociception, particularly mechanisms that regulate the spatial and temporal dynamics of signaling in pain-sensing neurons and their neighboring cells. Dr. Peach is a basic research scientist interested in how a receptor’s microenvironment, such as acidic endosomes traveling along a neuronal axon, can be exploited to improve drug development.
