Louis S Premkumar
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, USA
Biography
Louis S Premkumar is a Cellular and Molecular Neurobiologist and a Professor of Pharmacology at SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL. He obtained his doctoral degree in Neuroscience from John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra. He is an expert on TRP channels and has extensively studied TRPV1 ion channel on which the active ingredient of hot chili pepper, capsaicin binds and brings about the actions. Increased expression of TRPV1 is implicated in certain modalities of pain and an ultrapotent TRPV1 agonist, resiniferatoxin is undergoing clinical trials for the treatment of debilitating chronic pain conditions. He has published more than sixty peer-reviewed articles and has contributed chapters in five books.