Sandra M. Garraway, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physiology
My research interest has long focused on spinal nociceptive plasticity in developing and mature systems in the absence of, and after spinal cord injury (SCI). I am particularly interested in elucidating the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie the development and maintenance of chronic neuropathic pain after SCI.
Donald J. Noble, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
I completed my undergraduate studies at UCLA and joined the Garraway Lab in January 2016. As a graduate student at Emory, I studied the impact of slow, deep breathing on physiology and behavior in the rat. I am interested in i) the role that autonomic nervous system dysfunction plays in the development of allodynia following spinal cord injury, ii) frequency-dependent recruitment of C-LTMRs in our injury model, and iii) the development of novel therapeutic strategies aimed at the alleviation of chronic pain.
Karmarcha Martin
Lead Research Specialist
I completed my graduate studies at Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine Nursing & allied health. As a graduate student I studied Novel Vaccine Strategies for Immunization against HIV. I joined the Garraway lab as a lead research specialist in November of 2013. Our research focuses on the development of pain after spinal cord injury. We use rodent models to investigate (i) compromised Ad-LTMRs function contributes to allodynia after SCI, and (ii) nociceptive plasticity after Spinal cord injury.
