The Linnstaedt Lab received an NIH project grant (R01) from NIAMS to fund a five-year project aiming to identify sex-dependent microRNA-mediated pathways to chronic musculoskeletal pain development following trauma.

Alice Woolard joined the lab as a PhD student in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology.

The Linnstaedt Lab attended the first annual Maxiner Symposium at Duke University where Lauren, Erica, Jacqueline, Liz, Simran, Meghna, Miranda, and Taanvii presented posters over their research.

Erica Branham competed for and received a Department of Anesthesiology Research award to fund one of her research projects focused on how stress exposure influences pain-associated DNA methylation.

The Linnstaedt Lab attended the UNC Department of Anesthesiology Celebration of Research Symposium where Lauren, Erica, Jacqueline, Liz, Simran, Meghna, Miranda and Taanvii presented posters of their research.