Prof. Marshall Devor is the Alpert Professor of Pain Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). He was born in Toronto, Canada in 1949.  His AB and PhD degrees were from Princeton University (1970) and MIT (1975). He was a postdoctoral fellow with the pain research pioneer Prof. P.D. Wall at University College London and later at HUJI.  He joined the HUJI faculty as Research Associate in 1977 and rose to the rank of Professor in 1988. He served as Department Chairman (3 terms) and in a number of other University, national and international roles. He has contributed considerably to the understanding of the physiological basis of neuropathic pain and more recently to mechanisms involved in loss of consciousness and pain-free surgery. He is author of ~300 publications (H index = 69).

Research Interests: Neuroscience:  Nerve growth and regeneration; Synaptic plasticity in the spinal cord; Pathophysiology of injured nerve fibers and sensory neurons; Mechanisms of neuropathic pain; Heritability of pain and pain genetics; Central pain suppression; Mechanisms of general anaesthesia and the transition from wake to unconsciousness.