Andrew Strassman, PhD

Dr. Andrew Strassman’s research focuses on the neurobiology of pain and headache. He carried out his graduate research and obtained his PhD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the department of Neuroscience, and then pursued post-doctoral research in the department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he first obtained NIH funding as PI in 1988. He subsequently moved to the Department of Anesthesia at Beth Israel (now BIDMC) in 1994.

Dr. Strassman’s earlier work in the pain field examined the organization of the local neural circuitry involved in nociceptive transmission in the spinal and medullary dorsal horn, using a variety of electrophysiological techniques including in vitro and in vivo patch clamp recording and intracellular staining. His work in neurobiology of headache has examined the physiological response properties of peripheral and central nociceptive neurons of the meningeal sensory pathway. Recent studies have focused on the peripheral and central mechanisms of action of migraine therapeutic drugs on the neurons of this sensory pathway.