Wolfgang Bernhard Liedtke MD, PhD

Wolfgang B. Liedtke, MD, PhD, professor and faculty of the Center for Translational Neuroscience at Duke University School of Medicine, understands pain at the molecular level. As a physician, he understands it on the human level. He is a Professor of Neurology with appointments in Anesthesiology and Neurobiology at Duke University in Durham, NC. He is a prolific clinician in head-face pain in the Duke Neurology Clinics, as well as a molecular neuroscientist and physiologist managing his own federally-supported basic science laboratory.
In October 2000 he first described the TRPV4 ion channel which has emerged as a significant player in pain, also craniofacial pain. He was selected for 2 prestigious awards, drawing from a national pool of strong applicants, a Klingenstein Fellowship in Neurosciences of the Klingenstein Fund upon arrival at Duke in 2004, and a Harrington Discovery Institute Award as Scholar-Inventor in 2012 for his anslational-medical accomplishments and future promise. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, many of them relating to pain, inflammation and tissue injury.