Nathan P. Cramer PhD

Nathan Cramer, Ph.D., joined the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in February 2019. He is a UMB alumnus who received his doctorate in Neuroscience from the Graduate Program in Life Sciences in 2007. He comes from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences where his research focused on how the central nervous system adapts to prolonged high altitude exposure and the role of microglia in mediating inflammatory responses. His current research as a member of the Keller lab examines how changes in brain nuclei involved in pain processing are altered during chronic pain and long-term opioid use. In particular, he is interested in understanding how chronic opioid use leads to hyperalgesia and the mechanisms which facilitate pain perception during withdrawal.