Affiliation: University of Iowa and Iowa City VA Medical Center

Dr. Anne-Sophie Wattiez is a research scientist at the University of Iowa and Iowa City VA Medical Center, working primarily with animal models of post-traumatic headache and migraine. The primary focus of her research is the study of chronic pain and its associated symptoms.  It has always been important to her to work in a field close to medicine, where she could envision the benefits of her research in patients. This is also the reason why she is very interested in migraine/headache and pain manifestations in terms of translatable behaviors, including hypersensitivity as well as emotional and cognitive perturbations. Studying migraine and headache is very challenging, but it makes it that much more exciting when the results of fundamental research are extended into clinical trials. The hope of alleviating human suffering is her greatest motivation for working rigorously.