Bell lab
Keywords: nociception, anaesthesia, veterinary medicine, pinal cord, neural circuits, behaviour
My name is Andy Bell: I am a specialist veterinary anaesthetist and pain researcher and current Wellcome Clinical Research Fellow. My clinical interests centre around the measurement and treatment of pain in veterinary species. I also conduct discovery neuroscience research into spinal cord pain mechanisms. I am particulary interested in unravelling the heterogeneity amongst the neurons that make up pain and itch circuits in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. I use a variety of molecular, anatomical and behavioral techniques to investigate what defines neuronal identity and how this contributes to abnormal sensory function in pain states.