Dr. B. Duncan X. Lascelles earned his PhD in 1991 at the
University of Bristol in Pre-Emptive/Perioperative Analgesia. In addition, he
completed his surgical residency at the University of Cambridge, and earned a
Fellowship in Oncological Surgery at Colorado State University, then a period
of post-doctoral research in Feline Pain and Analgesia at the University of
Florida, and is currently Professor in Small Animal Surgery and Pain Management
at North Carolina State University. He is board certified in Small Animal
Surgery by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the European College of Veterinary
Surgeons and the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is director of the
Comparative Pain Research and Education Centre (CPREC). His research program
(Translational Research in Pain [TRiP]) is dedicated to answering critical
questions about pain control and pain mechanisms through high quality,
innovative research. His career has been focused on developing geometry methods
(methods to measure pain) in spontaneous disease animal models (pets with
naturally occurring disease), and probing tissues from well-phenotyped animals
with spontaneous disease to understand the neurobiology, with a strong
translational focus. His research aims to improve pain control in companion
animals and facilitate the development of analgesics in human medicine.
