Dr Milena De Felice

I graduated with a degree in Biology followed by a PhD in Pharmacology (2007) from the Sapienza University of Rome.

During my PhD, I had the privilege of visiting the lab of Professor Frank Porreca at the University of Arizona, USA, where I then decided to move after completing my PhD. While in the USA, I worked on investigating mechanisms that drive chronic pain conditions with a particular emphasis on migraine headache pain and I developed two preclinical models to study cephalic pain. 

At the end of 2013, I joined the School of Clinical Dentistry at the University of Sheffield (UK) and I was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Incoming Fellowship funded by the European Union.  Hosted in Prof Fiona Boissonade’s lab, during my fellowship I further developed the translatability of the migraine model using preclinical MRI.

I then joined Professor Arshad Majid’s group at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience to expand my knowledge in CNS disorders working on stroke and neuroinflammation.

A move to the private sector in 2021 as the Head of the Pharmacology Department at Labcorp, was followed by a return to the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Oral Neuroscience at the School of Clinical Dentistry in 2022.

My main research focuses on the preclinical investigation of chronic orofacial pain and post-stroke pain.