Good greetings to you this early morning; I am Abdullahi Hussein Umar, Lecturer (II) specialising in Neuroscience at the Department of Human Physiology.

My area of research interest is pain physiology. I am currently working to identify the physiological factors that are responsible for inter-individual variability in pain perception, especially in relation to gender and ethnicity. The outcome of our research will provide opportunity for individualized pain therapy, so that clinicians can prescribe pain medications based on one’s identity (which will tend to be more effective than prescription based on general symptomatic factors only).