Rohini Kuner - Curriculum Vitae#

Current position: Professor for Pharmacology & Toxicology (W3), Director of Department of Molecular Pharmacology

University education:

• 1987 - 1991 Studies in Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Bombay, India
  

Scientific degrees:

• 2005 Habilitation and Venia legendi in Pharmacology and Toxicology, Heidelberg University, Germany
  
• 1994 Doctoral dissertation, Ph.D. Subject: ‘The role of spinal excitatory amino acid receptors in pain’. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. G. F. Gebhart, Dept. of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Editorial boards:

• 2013 - present Section Editor, ‘Pain’
  
• 2013- present Scientific Advisory Panel for Journals of the International Association for the Study of Pain
  
• 2012 - present Editorial Board member, ‘Molecular Pain’
  
• 2012 - present Scientific Advisory board member, ‘Pain Research Forum’
  
• 2011 - present Editorial Board member, ‘The Open Pain Journal’
  
• 2011 - present Associate Editor, ‘European Journal of Neuroscience’
  
• 2010 - 2012 Associate Editor, ‘The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics’
  

Memberships, panels and coordinating functions:

Coordinator of Research Area C of the Excellence Cluster ‘CellNetworks’
Jury panel member for ERC Starting Investigator grants 2013
Member of the Research Panel ‘Neurosciences’ and the ‚Emmy Noether Panel’ of the German Research Foundation

5 most important publications

Simonetti M, Hagenston AM, Vardeh D, Freitag HE, Mauceri D, Lu J, Satagopam VP, Schneider R, Costigan M, Bading H, Kuner R. Nuclear calcium signaling in spinal neurons drives a genomic program required for persistent inflammatory pain. Neuron 77:43-45, 2013

Schweizerhof M, Stösser S, Kurejova M, Njoo C, Gangadharan V, Agarwal N, Schmelz M, Bali KK, Christoph M, Brugger S, Dickenson A, Simone D, Kuner R. Hematopoietic colony stimulating factors mediate tumor-nerve interactions and bone cancer pain. Nat Med 15: 802-7, 2009

Tappe A, Klugmann M, Luo C, Hirlinger D, Agarwal N, Benrath J, Ehrengruber MU, During MJ, Kuner R. Synaptic scaffolding protein Homer1a protects against chronic inflammatory pain. Nat Med 12: 677-81, 2006Hartmann B, Ahmadi S, Heppenstall P, Zeilhofer HU, Lewin G, Schott C, Seeburg PH, Sprengel R, Kuner R. The AMPA receptor subunits, GluR-A and GluR-B reciprocally modulate spinal synaptic plasticity and inflammatory pain. Neuron 44, 637-650, 2004

Kuner R, Kohr G, Grunewald S, Eisenhardt G, Bach A, Kornau HC. Role of Heteromer formation in GABA-B receptor function. Science 283: 74-77, 1999