Seminar – Rajesh Khanna, Ph.D.

Rajesh Khanna, Ph.D., an internationally known expert in ion channels and pain research, was named director of the NYU Pain Research Center, effective January 1, 2022. Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Khanna was the associate director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, and a member of the BIO5 Institute. Dr. Khanna earned a PhD in physiology from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has held faculty positions at the Toronto Western Research Institute, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis, and the University of Arizona. He has authored more than 185 peer reviewed publications, directed the dissertations of five PhD candidates, and trained 16 postdoctoral fellows.