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We are at the threshold of an explosion in the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of migraine, and with the help of MRF, more answers will soon be found.
- Joel Saper, MD, Research Advisory Board Chair

With your help, we’ve funded 98 researchers in 12 countries.

Our international researchers are dedicated to discovering the causes, improving the treatments, and finding a cure for migraine disease.  Click on the researcher profiles below to learn more about their grants and to read the Final Report if the grant has been completed. You can also view a list of all Migraine Research Foundation grants.

Zubair Ahmed

Zubair Ahmed, MD

Cleveland Clinic

Trent Anderson

Trent Anderson, PhD

University of Arizona, Phoenix

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Anna Andreou, PhD

King’s College London, UK

Andrea Antal, PhD and Walter Paulus, MD

University Medical Center, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

Messoud Ashina, MD, PhD, DMSc

Danish Headache Center, University of Copenhagen

Brandon Aylward, PhD and Scott Powers, PhD

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, OH

Serapio M. Baca, PhD

Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

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Emily Bates, PhD

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Nancy Berman, PhD

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City

Suzanne Bertisch, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

David Borsook, MD, PhD

David Borsook, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

K. C. Brennan, MD and Dan Kaufmann, PhD

University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Rami Burstein, PhD and Brian Grosberg, MD

Hartford Healthcare Headache Center, CT

Yu-Qing Cao, PhD

Washington University Pain Center, St. Louis, MO

Andrew Charles, MD

Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

F. Michael Cutrer, MD

The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Alexandre F. DaSilva, DDS, DMedSc

University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor

Greg Dussor, PhD and Ted Price, PhD

The University of Texas at Dallas

Teresa Esposito, PhD

Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy

José M. Fernández-Fernández, PhD

Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Amy Gelfand, MD

University of California, San Francisco

Pierangelo Geppetti, MD

University of Florence

Golda Ginsburg, PhD

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Michael S. Gold, PhD

University of Pittsburgh, PA

Lyn Griffiths, PhD

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Larus S. Gudmundsson, PhD

Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD/University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Andrew D. Hershey, MD, PhD

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Richard Kraig, MD, PhD

University of Chicago Medical Center, IL

Michel Lanteri-Minet, MD

Michel Lanteri-Minet, MD

CHU de Nice, France

Alyssa Lebel, MD

Boston Children’s Hospital, MA

Richard Lipton, MD

Richard Lipton, MD

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Blanca Marquez de Prado, PhD

Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

Arne May, PhD and Kerstin Lüdtke, PhD

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Robert Nicholson, PhD

Mercy Clinic Headache Center, St. Louis, MO

Dale R. Nyholt, PhD and Huiying Zhao, PhD

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Jacki Ochs and Susanna Styron

Filmmakers, Human Arts Association, NYC

Jes Olesen, MD, and Deepak Kumar Bhatt, PhD

Danish Headache Center, University of Copenhagen

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Michael Oshinsky, PhD

Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Robin Polt, PhD and Frank Porreca, PhD

University of Arizona, Tucson

Frank Porreca, PhD

Frank Porreca, PhD

University of Arizona, Tucson

Patricia Pozo-Rosich MRF

Patricia Pozo-Rosich, MD, PhD

Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

Louis J. Ptáček, MD

University of California, San Francisco

William Renthal, MD, PhD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Paul Rolan, MD

Paul Rolan, MD

School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

Marcela Romero-Reyes, DDS, PhD

NYU School of Dentistry, NYC

Ann Scher, PhD

Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

Nathaniel Schuster, MD

University of California San Diego Center for Pain Medicine

Markus Schürks, MD, MSc and Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Robert Shapiro, MD, PhD and Gary Mawe, PhD

University of Vermont, Burlington

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Todd Smitherman, PhD

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

Igor Spigelman, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

Patric Stanton, PhD

New York Medical College, Valhalla

Amaal Starling, MD

Mayo Clinic, Phoenix,AZ

Cristina Tassorelli, MD, PhD, Rashid Giniatullin, MD, PhD and Juha Savinainen, PhD

C. Mondino National Institute of Neurology Foundation, Pavia, Italy

Xiaohui Wang, PhD

Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China

Anne-Sophie Wattiez, PhD

University of Iowa

Maija Wessman, PhD and Mikko Kallela, MD, PhD

Folkhälsan Research Center, University of Helsinki

Julie Wieseler, PhD and Linda Watkins, PhD

University of Colorado at Boulder

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Colin Willis, PhD

University of New England, Biddeford, ME

Tony L. Yaksh

Tony L. Yaksh, PhD

UCSD Medical Center, San Diego,CA

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David Yarnitsky, MD, Yelena Granovsky, PhD, and Michal Granot, PhD

Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel

David C. Yeomans, PhD

Stanford University School of Medicine