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"More than 39 million Americans suffer from migraine, affecting a wide variety of people of all ages and every walk of life, giving researchers like me 39 million reasons to find a cure."
- Robert Nicholson, PhD, MRF Grantee
MRF researchers

With your help, we’ve funded 72 migraine researchers in 11 countries.

We fund research that will help sufferers. Our researchers are committed to discovering the causes, improving the treatments, and finding a cure for migraine. Read about some of the progress we’ve made, or click on the researcher profiles below to learn more.

You can also view a list of all Migraine Research Foundation grantees.

Trent Anderson

Trent Anderson, PhD

University of Arizona, Phoenix

AnnaPAndreou MRF

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 MRF

Messoud Ashina, MD, PhD, DMSc

Danish Headache Center, University of Copenhagen

Brandon Aylward, PhD & Scott Powers, PhD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital, OH

Serapio M. Baca, PhD

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 & Brian Grosberg, MD

Hartford Healthcare Headache Center, CT

Yu-Qing Cao, PhD

Washington University Pain Center, St. Louis, MO

Andrew Charles, MD

Andrew Charles, MD

Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

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F. Michael Cutrer, MD

The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

alexandre f. dasilva

Alexandre F. DaSilva, DDS, DMedSc

University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor

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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

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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

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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

Clas Linnman, PhD

Boston Children's Hospital

Richard Lipton, MD

Richard Lipton, MD

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Arne May, PhD & Kerstin Lüdtke, PhD

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Kathleen Mullin, MD

Montefiore Headache Center

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Robert Nicholson, PhD

Mercy Clinic Headache Center, St. Louis, MO

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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

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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

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Louis J. Ptáček, MD

University of California, San Francisco

Ana Recober, MD

Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

William Renthal, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School

Paul Rolan, MD

Paul Rolan, MD

School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

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Marcela Romero-Reyes, DDS, PhD

NYU School of Dentistry, NYC

Ann Scher, PhD

Ann Scher, PhD

Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

tobias-kurth

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

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

shapiro-mawe

Robert Shapiro, MD, PhD and Gary Mawe, PhD

University of Vermont, Burlington

todd smitherman

Todd Smitherman, PhD

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

Patric Stanton, PhD

Patric Stanton, PhD

New York Medical College, Valhalla

amaal-starling

Amaal Starling, MD

Mayo Clinic, Phoenix,AZ

waynethomas

Wayne Thomas, PhD

Cell Innovations, Australia

Xiaohui Wang-traditional chinese medicines

Xiaohui Wang, PhD

Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China

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Julie Wieseler, PhD & 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 of Medicine

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