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No Pain, No Gain: Advice for Turbulent Times in Neuroscience Research

February 25, 2026

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

We are living in turbulent research times in the U.S. The speaker will share her thoughts and advice on navigating these unprecedented, challenging times in neuroscience research based on her last 30 years navigating a healthy family life and career in somatosensory and pain research. This speaker will offer her perspective on seeking and finding funding, work-life balance, finding your passion, pivoting projects, making and recovering from mistakes, staying positive, and the vital importance of communicating scientific work to the lay public today.

This session speaker will be Cheryl L. Stucky, PhD, and will be moderated by Annabelle Singer, PhD, 2025 Program Committee member.

This was selected as a part of the Neuroscience 2025 programming: Theme E – Sensory Systems.

Speakers

Cheryl L. Stucky, PhD

Cheryl L. Stucky, PhD, is the Marvin Wagner Endowed Chair and director of the pain pillar of the Wisconsin Institute of Neuroscience at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She received a BA in biology from Bethel College, Kansas, then earned her PhD in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. She pursued postdoctoral research in Germany, at the University of Würzburg and at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. She is a global leader in uncovering causes of pain in injury and disease including chemotherapy, diabetic and traumatic neuropathy, sickle cell disease and Fabry disease.

Annabelle Singer, PhD

Annabelle Singer, PhD, is the McCamish Foundation Early Career Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Singer’s research uses novel techniques to identify and restore failures in brain activity that lead to memory impairment. Additionally, using non-invasive approaches, she is translating her discoveries from rodents to develop radically new ways to treat diseases that affect memory in humans. Singer completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT and she received her PhD in neuroscience from UCSF.

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No Pain, No Gain: Advice for Turbulent Times in Neuroscience Research

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