Shafaq Sikandar

Shafaq Sikandar

Professor of Sensory Neurophysiology. Centre of Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL

Professor Shafaq Sikandar is the group leader of the Sensory Neurophysiology lab at the William Harvey Research Institute. Her research training was based on rodent and human models to study the neurophysiology of pain. Shafaq’s PhD training was in the Pharmacology department of University College London, and she continued postdoctoral training in the Anaesthesiology department of University of California San Diego and in the Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research of UCL. In 2018 she was awarded a Versus Arthritis fellowship and appointed lecturer in sensory biology in the Centre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology.

e: s.sikandar@qmul.ac.uk