Biography
Emerson Krock is currently an Assistant Professor at McGill University in the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences and the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain. He completed his PhD at McGill University with Drs. Lisbet Haglund, Jean Ouellet and Laura Stone where he investigated how intervertebral disc degeneration and extracellular matrix remodelling leads to chronic low back pain through nerve growth factor, IL-8 and toll-like receptors. He then completed his postdoc training at the Karolinska Institute with Camilla Svensson where his work focused on autoantibody driven pain in fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis, and dorsal root ganglia plasticity. His research program focuses on autoantibody driven pain in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, pain-inducing autoantibody development through molecular mimicry, and how extracellular matrix remodelling and satellite glia cell activity modulates dorsal root ganglia plasticity.
