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Nader Ghasemlou

ResearcherBiomedical and Molecular SciencesQueen's University

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Nader Ghasemlou

Researcher

Biomedical and Molecular Sciences

Health Sciences

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
33 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 16 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (7 CIHR, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 3 trainee awards (3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Chronic Pain Cytokines Neuroinflammation Circadian Rhythms Bioinformatics Ecological Momentary Assessment Pain Animal Behaviour

Latest papers

Cryotherapy and Duration of Inflammatory Pain in Mice.
Anesthesiology · 2026
Nociceptor circadian clock genes control excitability and pain perception in mice in a sex- and time-dependent manner.
Nature communications · 2026 · senior author
Feasibility of intra-day blood biomarker and ecological momentary assessment collection in multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders · 2026 · senior author

All 45 publications

Latest funding

Effective communication for chronic pain Clinician-Patient interactions: CARING in action
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Organ-specific immune reservoirs as drivers of secondary damage in spinal cord injury.
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
Cell-autonomous microglial clocks and the rhythmicity of chronic pain
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$1,143,676

All 15 grants and awards

45 publications.

Cryotherapy and Duration of Inflammatory Pain in Mice.

Lima LV, Pittman C, Laor B, Fouda I, Karaky M, Di Maria M, Cargnel O, Kanani P, Rickert-Llàcer A, Wilcox NC, Sotocinal SG, Ghasemlou N, Diatchenko L, Mogil JS

Anesthesiology2026

DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000006066 PMID: 41894397

Nociceptor circadian clock genes control excitability and pain perception in mice in a sex- and time-dependent manner.

Brécier A, Bannerman CA, Xie YF, Dedek C, Zacharias AM, O'Connor CD, Rickert Llàcer A, Miller SD, Li VW, Meier C, Ballantyne LL, Du Bois J, Duan Q, Prescott SA, Ghasemlou N

Nature communications2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73772-z PMID: 42230621

Feasibility of intra-day blood biomarker and ecological momentary assessment collection in multiple sclerosis.

Majer ML, Taccardi D, Gowdy HG, Li VW, Zacharias AM, Duan Q, Shawawrah M, Wing AC, Baharnoori M, Finlayson M, Ghasemlou N

Multiple sclerosis and related disorders2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2026.107426 PMID: 42570511

Shedding light on pain management: a translational systematic review of light therapy for the treatment of chronic pain.

Taccardi D, Gowdy HGM, Sharp EV, Adya P, Cupido TL, Pagé MG, Ghasemlou N

EBioMedicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2026.106251 PMID: 42055834

Chemokines as targets to treat chronic postoperative pain.

Rangachari M, Ghasemlou N

Pain2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003940 PMID: 41800737

"CARING in Action": A Knowledge Mobilization Project on Co-Creating Evidence-Based Communication Training in Chronic Pain Care for Healthcare Professionals.

Taccardi D, Espinoza-Suarez NR, Shah S, Daly-Cyr J, LeBlanc A, Ghasemlou N, Cooper L, Bosma R, Roy R

Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur2026

DOI: 10.1080/24740527.2026.2696249 PMID: 42569207

Locomotor Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury Can Be Assessed Using Weight-Bearing.

Bannerman CA, Knezic M, Segal JP, Zacharias AM, Harrigan D, Philips SJ, Duan Q, Ghasemlou N

Journal of neurotrauma2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/08977151251380704 PMID: 40982320

Circadian rhythmicity of symptomatic phenotypes in multiple sclerosis: the CircaMS study protocol and feasibility of biomarker collection.

Taccardi D, Gowdy HGM, Li VW, Wing AC, Baharnoori M, Finlayson M, Ghasemlou N

BMJ open2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095357 PMID: 40044201

Integrating sensitive motor tasks with histopathology detects sex differences in recovery after spinal cord injury.

Swarts EA, Munro AI, Bannerman CA, Zielonka JR, Tordoff CE, Ghasemlou N, Brennan FH

Experimental neurology2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2025.115417 PMID: 40782936

Rethinking the temporal dynamics of pain: from 3 months to 3 hours?

Ghasemlou N

Pain2025First author

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003678 PMID: 41086324

Effective communication for chronic pain Clinician-Patient interactions: CARING in action

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Taccardi, Doriana

Keywords: Chronic Pain; Digital Health; Health Decisions; Health Services; Knowledge Dissemination; Open Science; Patient Engagement

$20,000

Organ-specific immune reservoirs as drivers of secondary damage in spinal cord injury.

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: Rickert Llàcer, Aitana

Keywords: Central Nervous System Injury; Marginal Pool; Microbiome; Monocyte-Derived Macrophages (Mdms); Neuroimmune; Photoconversion; Spinal Cord Injury; Tissue-Specific Migration

$120,000

Cell-autonomous microglial clocks and the rhythmicity of chronic pain

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ghasemlou, Nader

Keywords: Animal Behaviour; Astrocytes; Chronic Pain; Circadian Rhythms; Clock Genes; Mef2c; Microglia; Neuroinflammation

$1,143,676

Modulating gut-derived immune cell migration and pain outcomes in spinal cord injury through fecal microbiome transplantation

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: Wilcox, Natalie C

Keywords: 16s Rrna Sequencing; Fecal Microbiome Transplant; Flow Cytometry; Gut Microbiome; Immune Cell Migration; Immunofluorescence Microscopy; Mouse Pain Behaviour Assays; Neuropathic Pain; Single Cell Rna Sequencing; Spinal Cord Injury

$120,000

Circadian rhythm control of chronic pain and neuroinflammation: a bedside-to-bench study

Nominated PICIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ghasemlou, Nader; Page, Gabrielle

Keywords: Animal Models; Bioinformatics; Biopsychosocial Assessment; Chronic Pain; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Neuroinflammation; Transcriptomics; Translational Research

$956,250

CircaHealth iCT: Targeting circadian rhythmicity using light therapy to alleviate chronic pain

Nominated PICIHR2023Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant - LOI

Principal investigators: Ghasemlou, Nader; Di Renna, Tania; Duggan, Scott S; Bosma, Rachael L; Choinière, Manon; Daly-Cyr, Jennifer; El-Gabalawy, Renée; Lu, Zihang; Page, Gabrielle; Poulin, Patricia A; Singer, Lesley N

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Biomarkers; Biopsychosocial Approaches; Chronic Pain; Circadian Rhythms; Cytokines; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Immune Cells; Light Therapy; Randomized Controlled Trial

CircaHealth-CircaPain iCT: Targeting circadian rhythmicity using bright light therapy to alleviate chronic low back pain

Nominated PICIHR2023Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant

Principal investigators: Ghasemlou, Nader; Buckley, David N; Clarke, Hance A; CUPIDO, TRACY L; Di Renna, Tania; Duggan, Scott S; Martel, Marc Olivier; Poulin, Patricia A; Daly-Cyr, Jennifer; Page, Gabrielle

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Biomakers; Biopsychosocial Approach; Bright Light; Chronic Pain; Circadian Rhythms; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Immune Cells; Light Therapy; Randomized Controlled Trial

$2,000,000

Examining the influence of circadian rhythmicity on biopsychosocial factors of chronic pain

SupervisorCIHR2023Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Gowdy, Hailey G

Keywords: Biopsychosocial; Chronic Low Back Pain; Chronic Pain; Circadian Rhythms; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Pain Rhythmicity

$105,000

Addressing immunobiology of the sexes to correct failures and strengthen safety of medical devices: Surgical mesh as the prototype

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Wells, Laura

Keywords: medical devices; sex differences; inflammation; innate immunity; biomaterials; patient safety; primary human in vitro models ; social bias ; biomedical engineering

$250,000

Investigating the Regulation of RET Receptor-Mediated Perineural Invasion and Metastasis

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Mulligan, Lois M

Keywords: Metastasis; Oncolytic Virus; Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma; Perineural Invasion; Protein Trafficking; Receptor Tyrosine Kinase; Ret

$887,400

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Nader Ghasemlou

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Cryotherapy and Duration of Inflammatory Pain in Mice.

Nociceptor circadian clock genes control excitability and pain perception in mice in a sex- and time-dependent manner.

Feasibility of intra-day blood biomarker and ecological momentary assessment collection in multiple sclerosis.

Shedding light on pain management: a translational systematic review of light therapy for the treatment of chronic pain.

Chemokines as targets to treat chronic postoperative pain.

"CARING in Action": A Knowledge Mobilization Project on Co-Creating Evidence-Based Communication Training in Chronic Pain Care for Healthcare Professionals.

Locomotor Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury Can Be Assessed Using Weight-Bearing.

Circadian rhythmicity of symptomatic phenotypes in multiple sclerosis: the CircaMS study protocol and feasibility of biomarker collection.

Integrating sensitive motor tasks with histopathology detects sex differences in recovery after spinal cord injury.

Rethinking the temporal dynamics of pain: from 3 months to 3 hours?

Addressing immunobiology of the sexes to correct failures and strengthen safety of medical devices: Surgical mesh as the prototype

Frequent collaborators

Ian Gilron

Doriana Taccardi

Qingling Duan

Luda Diatchenko

Sébastien Talbot

Scott Duggan

Zihang Lu

Marcia Finlayson

Manu Rangachari

Jordan Miller

Eva Kaufmann

Prameet Sheth

Roumen Milev

Annie LeBlanc

Rosemary Wilson

Rachael Bosma

Jason Gallivan

Bebhinn Treanor

Norman Buckley

Christophe Altier

Alberto Caminero Fernandez