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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Apkarian Lab

Lab Members

Meet the Apkarian Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.

Principal Investigator

Vania Apkarian, PhD

Vania Apkarian, PhD

Director, Center for Translational Pain Research
Professor of Neuroscience, Anesthesiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

a-apkarian( at )northwestern.edu

Curriculum vitae

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Vania Apkarian, PhD, has studied pain for two decades, both in animal models and fMRI studies in humans. His current interests include cortical dynamics of pain as well as brain plasticity. His overall goal is the uncovering of brain mechanisms underlying PAIN QUALIA. This work aims to alleviate clinical pain conditions and achieve a more profound theoretical and mechanistic understanding of the brain.

Faculty

Marwan Baliki, PhD

Marwan Baliki, PhD

Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

marwan.baliki( at )northwestern.edu

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Marwan Baliki, PhD, is interested in alleviating any kind of human suffering. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience from Northwestern University and MS in Neuroscience from the American University of Beirut, where he studied the role of limbic system on neurophatic pain. He is interested in cortical physiology and plasticity in chronic pain conditions. 

Lejian Huang, PhD

Lejian Huang, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

lejian-huang( at )northwestern.edu

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Research Staff

Jennifer Perez

Jennifer Perez

Research Study Coordinator

jennifer.perez( at )northwestern.edu

Graduate Students

Andrew Vigotsky

Andrew Vigotsky

Graduate Student

vigotsky( at )u.northwestern.edu

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Andrew is a biomedical engineering PhD and statistics MS student studying the brain dynamics associated with pain qualia. His work combines psychophysics with brain imaging, electrophysiology (EEG), and dynamic analyses.