Luana Colloca | The Helix Center

Luana Colloca

Title: Professor of Pain and Translational Symptom Science; Director, Placebo Beyond Opinions Center

Institution: University of Maryland Sc

Discipline: Biology & Medicine

Appearances: 1

Notable: University of Maryland, Baltimore Researcher of the Year (2024); Dubner Award and Patrick Wall International Award from the International Association for the Study of Pain; over 200 publications with more than 19,000 citations

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Biography

Luana Colloca is an international leader in placebo and nocebo research who uses psychopharmacological, neurobiological, and behavioral approaches to advance understanding of placebo effects. She holds an M.D. from Italy and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Turin.

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