Rajesh Khanna, Ph.D.

Rajesh Khanna earned a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada where he also obtained his M.Sc. in Pharmacology and a B.Sc. in Toxicology. After completing a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)- and American Heart Association (AHA)-funded postdoctoral fellowship in Physiology and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, he completed a fellowship in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Toronto Western Research Institute in Toronto, Ontario. Currently, he is the Director of Center for Advanced Pain Therapeutics and Research (CAPToR), University of Florida. Before his current role, he was an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, a Professor at the University of Arizona, and a Professor and Director at NYU Pain Research Center (Molecular Pathobiology), New York University.

The Khanna lab studies allosteric regulation and trafficking of voltage-gated ion channels in chronic pain and neurodegenerative diseases. We are well-positioned to address broader foundational aspects of the chronification of pain, with multidisciplinary expertise in mouse genetics, confocal microscopy, protein biochemistry, electrophysiology – i.e. whole cell (current- and voltage-clamp; in rats, mice, pigs, macaque, and human DRGs) and slice (mice and rats), live imaging and evoked/affective pain behavioral analyses in rodent models to dissect mechanisms and roles of chronic pain.