Emerson Krock is Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences, and a member of the RQRD. His research findings suggest that a subset of fibromyalgia-related pain may be mediated by autoantibodies – antibodies that attack parts of our own body. However, it’s not clear why these autoantibodies develop. His laboratory is therefore studying how fibromyalgia autoantibodies develop. One possibility is that altering gut bacteria stimulates an antibody-generating immune response, and that if these antibodies recognize molecules sufficiently similar to those found on satellite glial cells, then an autoantibody response could occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emerson Krock has received three grants to further its research from the Rita Allen Foundation<\/a>, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canada Foundation for Innovation<\/a> (CFI)’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emerson Krock is Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-12057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-our-researchers-en","tag-articles-en"],"acf":[],"views":259,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21174,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057\/revisions\/21174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}