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June 22, 2021 鈥� DENTON 鈥� 草莓传媒官网下载 biology PhD candidate Daisy Cantu received the  at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health's (NIH) in May.

The award is granted annually to the "best poster presentation" at the consortium and was presented to Cantu by Dr. Rena D'Souza, director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, for her research poster, "Stress Exacerbates Orofacial Pain Behaviors to a Greater Degree in Female Rats."

Cantu is a third-generation 草莓传媒官网下载 student. She earned her MS in Biology at 草莓传媒官网下载 in 2020 and is currently conducting doctoral research under the mentorship of associate professor , who previously won the Mitchell Max Award as a post-doctoral fellow.

Cantu's research focuses on the effect of hormones and stress on neural processes when women experience inflammatory pain. 

鈥淭his research is significant to me because most current studies in pain are exclusively conducted on males,鈥� Cantu said. 鈥淗owever, understanding the activity of female neural circuitry is vital for the development of sex-specific therapeutic strategies to alleviate chronic pain.鈥�

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