About Me
Dr. Mogil has made seminal contributions to the field of pain research, founding the significant new subfield of pain genetics. His demonstrations of the effect of strain, sex, social factors, and laboratory environmental variables on pain behaviour in animals have improved the design and interpretation of biomedical experiments worldwide and led to changes in research policy. His discovery of empathy in rodents, facial expressions of pain in laboratory animals, and successful mouse-to-human translational findings have implications not only for analgesic drug development, but also for evolutionary theory, ethics and veterinary care.