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    Stanislava Jergova, PhD

    Research Assistant Professor
    University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
    Miami, Florida, United States

    I started my pain research career during Ph.D. studies (2000-2004) at Institute of Neurobiology, Slovak Academy of Science, where I gained necessary experiences with several rodent pain models. After joining Dr. Sagen’s lab for my postdoctoral fellowship (2008-2013), I received training in recombinant cell cultures, gene engineering techniques, cell transplantation and gene therapy for chronic pain. With the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation (2011) I gained experience in the in vivo electrophysiology to evaluate excitability of neurons in models of chronic pain. I held a Department of Defense Discovery Award (2019-2021), with a project focused on recombinant GABAergic cells and conopeptides as a novel therapy for chronic pain. Recently I was promoted into Research Assistant Professor position at University of Miami (2022), and I am trying to establish a novel direction in my pain research with the focus on mechanisms of pain chronicity and identification of new therapeutic targets. I was awarded a UM Junior Faculty Award to design optogenetically controlled grafts releasing analgesic substances using biomaterials. Current efforts are focused on the analgesic potential of human inducible pluripotent stem cells and extracellular vesicles, and the epigenetic biomarkers for chronic pain.

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