Martin Angst

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine

EDUCATION:
• 1987 Medical Doctorate and Thesis, Medical School, University of Berne, Switzerland
• 1981-1987 Medical School, University of Berne, Switzerland

POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION:
• 1994-1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
• 1990-1994 Residency in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland
• 1988-1990 Residency in Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital of Burgdorf, Switzerland

AWARDS:
• 2010 Research Award (Senior Investigator to Dave Ruau), Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 2009 Research Award (Senior Investigator to Nick Phillips), Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 2008 Research Award (Senior Investigator to Jason Cuellar), Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 2007 Research Award (Primary Investigator), Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 2004 Research Award (Senior Investigator to Larry Chu), Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 2002 Monthly Teaching Award (elected by anesthesia residents)
• 2001 Research Award (Senior Investigator to Yehuda Ginosar), Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 1997 Analgesiology and Headache Section, American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Best Abstract
• 1996 Research Award (Primary Investigator), Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
• 1994-1995 Swiss Society of Anesthesiologists, Research Fellowship
• 1994-1995 Ciba-Geigy-Jubilaeumsstiftung, Research Fellowship
• 1994-1995 Janggen-Poehn Stiftung, Research Fellowship

MEMBERSHIPS:
• 2009-present Association of University Anesthesiologists
• 1997-2000 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• 1996-present International Anesthesia Research Society
• 1995-present International Association for the Study of Pain
• 1995-present American Pain Society
• 1995-present California Society of Anesthesiologists
• 1995-present American Society of Anesthesiologists

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
• 2010-present Editor; Anesthesia & Analgesia
• 2007-2010 Associate Editor; Anesthesia & Analgesia
• 2002-present Editorial review boards: Anesthesiology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, European Journal of Pain, Experimental Neurology, Journal of Pain, Molecular Pain, Pain, Science

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The human pain research laboratory was launched in 1995 as a translational research unit assisting the transfer of knowledge between basic and clinical sciences. Engaged in a bidirectional approach the lab is well positioned to examine how findings in the basic sciences apply to human biology, and to explore the validity and mechanistic implications of intriguing clinical observations under well controlled, 'bench-like' conditions.

Our laboratory is active in three major and inter-related areas: the identification of pain biomarkers and potential analgesic targets, the early validation or rejection of novel analgesic interventions, and the pharmacogenomics and proteomics of opioid-analgesics. Pertinent questions are addressed with the aid of experimental and clinical pain models (e.g. calibrated sunburns or surgical wounds), pharmacological tools (e.g. computer-controlled infusion algorithms), proteomic and genomic approaches (e.g. micro-catheter based techniques for tissue-specific sampling and analysis of cytokine and chemokine profiles), and imaging techniques (e.g. laser doppler imaging). The overarching goal of our research is to move towards a mechanism-based and individualized diagnosis and therapy of pain.

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