Neuroscientist Akshay Parchure Studies the Science Behind Chronic Pain, Opioids and Vision Loss
Born in India and trained in biomedical sciences and neuroscience, Parchure has spent more than nine years in the lab working on questions that touch millions of American families, from how the brain handles pain to how pressure inside the eye damages sight.
Chronic pain, the opioid crisis and slowly fading eyesight are problems many American families know firsthand. Far fewer people know about the laboratory work that tries to explain why they happen in the first place.
For Akshay Parchure, that work is the job. A neuroscientist, Parchure works as a lab manager and staff scientist at the…
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