On May 16th, TWRI hosted its 12th Annual Research Day, which featured a selection of basic and clinical research presentations highlighting the exciting work conducted by graduate and post-graduates at the institute over the past year.

The May issue of the McEwen Monthly is now available online! Read about a study by Dr. Ren-Ke Li that delves into the effect of age on cardiac repair, with important implications for the development of new cell therapies.

Every person perceives pain and temperature differently. But why this happens has yet to be fully explained. Studies have shown that differences between individuals in perceiving pain caused by heat are linked to variations in neurophysiology. TWRI Senior Scientist Dr. Karen Davis, together with her trainees Dr. Nathalie Erpelding and Massieh Moayedi, have expanded this concept by investigating the relationship between pain and temperature sensitivity and the thickness of grey matter—tissue in the brain that contains neurons related to sensory,  motor and cognitive information—in different regions of the brain associated with perception of these sensations.