Affiliation: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Pharmacology, Laboratory of Sensory Neurophysiology and Pain

Dr. Javier Aguilera-Lizarraga did his undergraduate and master's studies in Biotechnology at the University of Lleida (Spain) and his doctoral studies at KU Leuven (Belgium). In 2019, he completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences supported by a PhD fellowship granted by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) under Prof. Guy Boeckxstaens. Also, in 2019, Dr. Aguilera-Lizarraga obtained an FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship to continue his training at Prof. Boeckxstaens's lab. During his PhD and first postdoc, he investigated the impact of immune mediators on visceral afferent nerves as a mechanism underlying the development of visceral pain. In 2022, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Ewan St. John Smith at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is working on the Advanced Discovery of Visceral Analgesics via Neuroimmune Targets and the Genetics of Extreme human phenotypes (ADVANTAGE) consortium as part of the MRC Advanced Pain Discovery Platform.