Professor Maria Fitzgerald, BA, PhD, FMedSci

Professor of Developmental Neurobiology
Dept Anatomy & Developmental Biology, University College London
Gower St , London WC1E6BT

Tel 020 7679 1303  (x31303)
Fax 020 7383 0929
m.fitzgerald@ucl.ac.uk

Maria Fitzgerald's laboratory is in the Medawar building of the Anatomy & Developmental Biology Dept at UCL (http://www.anat.ucl.ac.uk). 

The laboratory has the following research aims:- 

• To provide an understanding of the neurobiological processes which underlie the development of peripheral and central pain pathways.
• To create laboratory models of model acute and persistent pain in children and define the structural and functional effects of such experiences upon the immature nervous system
• To assess the long term consequences of early pain and analgesia on the developing CNS.
• To evaluate, in collaboration with clinical colleagues, the benefits of current analgesic therapies in infants and children.

See Research & Publications

Maria Fitzgerald a member of the Wellcome London Pain Consortium http://www.lpc.ac.uk  a multi-faculty grouping that offers training in pain research for post-graduate and post-doctoral students from basic science and clinical backgrounds. The training emphasises integrative physiological techniques that examine genomic contributions to pain states underpinned by internationally competitive research.

For an insight about Maria Fitzgerald's life as a neuroscientist at UCL see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-faculty/mariafitzgerald.htm