Fiona M Boissonade

Biography

After completing my BDS degree at the University of Birmingham and training posts in Oral Surgery, I obtained a PhD in Neuroscience from University of Bristol School of Physiology and Pharmacology. Following my PhD I was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Medical Research Council of Canada to undertake research at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. I returned to the UK to take up a post as Lecturer and then Reader in Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry. I was awarded a Personal Chair in 2003 and was the first female Professor in the School.

Research Interest

My primary research interests focus on pain, nerve injury and regeneration, and neural interactions in disease progression and wound healing. My laboratory currently includes one research fellow, two postdoctoral researchers, seven PhD students and two intercalating BMedSci students. The lab is highly international with current members from Italy, Portugal, Thailand, Japan, Mexico and Saudi Arabia as well as from the UK, demonstrating the reach of our research. I lead the intercalated BMedSci course and the Sheffield Pain Network, and am Director of Impact and External Engagement for the School.