Prof Patrick W. Mantyh
Patrick W. Mantyh, PhD, JD, is professor of pharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, a member of the Arizona Cancer Center and a research career scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received bachelor’s degrees in botany and molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, a PhD in neuroanatomy from the University of California at San Francisco, and a JD degree with specialty in patent law from the William Mitchell College of Law in St Paul, Minnesota.
Dr. Mantyh is nationally recognized for his research of chronic skeletal pain and cancer-related pain. Specific areas of interest include: understanding the unique sensory and sympathetic innervation of the skeleton in health, disease and aging; investigating the mechanisms that generate and maintain cancer pain; exploring the factors that drive non-malignant skeletal pain; and developing and testing novel therapies that can attenuate malignant and non-malignant skeletal pain.
Dr Mantyh has published extensively and is the author or co-author of more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the Editorial Board of several journals, including Journal of Pain, Journal of Neuroscience, British Journal of Pharmacology, and Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and is an ad hoc reviewer for over 20 others.
Dr Mantyh is a frequent lecturer, both nationally and internationally, and is a member of many professional organizations, such as the International Association for the Study of Pain, American Pain Society, American Society for Neurochemistry, and European Neuroscience Association. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including; the 20th Annual Gunn-Loke Award in Pain Research from the University of Washington, the Eastern Pain Association John J. Bonica Award, and the Patrick Wall Award from the New Zealand Pain Society and a Merit Award from NIH.
