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Marco Loggia

Marco Loggia is a US-based Italian neuroscientist who specializes in brain imaging. He is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and directs the Pain and Neuroinflammation Imaging Laboratory, located at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is also the co-director of the Center of Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CiPNI) at MGH.[1] He is known for his work on brain mechanisms of pain, especially using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)[2][3] and positron emission tomography (PET).[4][5] He has been a pioneer in the use of Arterial Spin Labeling[6][7] and second-generation TSPO PET ligands for the study of chronic pain.[4][5] He is a Section Editor for the journal PAIN, and also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Pain and Pain Medicine. His work has been highlighted by many media outlets, including Popular Science,[8] New Scientist,[9] Scientific American,[10] ABC News,[11] la Repubblica,[12] Sky TG24,[13] the Harvard Gazette[14] and others.

Marco Loggia
Born
Marco Luciano Loggia

January 6, 1979
Vizzolo Predabissi (Milan, Italy)
CitizenshipItalian
Alma materMcGill University, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Scientific career
FieldsBrain Imaging, Pain, Neuroscience

Biography

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Loggia was born in Italy, where he obtained a Laurea (a five-year degree equivalent to a B.Sc. plus a M.Sc.) in Experimental Psychology at the Universita’ Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan, Italy). In 2008 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Neurological Sciences by McGill University in Montreal, QC (Canada), under the mentorship of Prof. M. Catherine Bushnell. He then held the position of Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School until 2013, when he became faculty at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.[15]

He and his wife Nazma have three children: Gabriele, Suraiya and Naima.

Awards and recognition

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Loggia is a recipient of the 2013 Early Career Award from the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and the 2016 IASP Ulf Lindblom Young Investigator Award for Clinical Science.[16] He is also the principal investigator of several federal and foundation grants, including from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and various foundations. The Harvard Gazette described his work on neuroinflammation in chronic back pain as a "breakthrough on chronic pain."[14] His study of neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia,[5] conducted in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet, was named one of the "Top Ten Cell Science News Stories of 2018" by Technology Networks.[17] In 2021, he was named Distinguished Investigator by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Marco L. Loggia, PhD". loggialab.mgh.harvard.edu.
  2. ^ Loggia, Marco L.; Kim, Jieun; Gollub, Randy L.; Vangel, Mark G.; Kirsch, Irving; Kong, Jian; Wasan, Ajay D.; Napadow, Vitaly (January 1, 2013). "Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: An arterial spin labeling study". Pain. 154 (1): 24–33. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2012.07.029. PMC 3534957. PMID 23111164.
  3. ^ Loggia, Marco L.; Berna, Chantal; Kim, Jieun; Cahalan, Christine M.; Gollub, Randy L.; Wasan, Ajay D.; Harris, Richard E.; Edwards, Robert R.; Napadow, Vitaly (October 4, 2014). "Disrupted Brain Circuitry for Pain-Related Reward/Punishment in Fibromyalgia". Arthritis & Rheumatology. 66 (1): 203–212. doi:10.1002/art.38191. PMC 4516215. PMID 24449585.
  4. ^ a b Loggia, Marco L.; Chonde, Daniel B.; Akeju, Oluwaseun; Arabasz, Grae; Catana, Ciprian; Edwards, Robert R.; Hill, Elena; Hsu, Shirley; Izquierdo-Garcia, David; Ji, Ru-Rong; Riley, Misha; Wasan, Ajay D.; Zürcher, Nicole R.; Albrecht, Daniel S.; Vangel, Mark G.; Rosen, Bruce R.; Napadow, Vitaly; Hooker, Jacob M. (March 1, 2015). "Evidence for brain glial activation in chronic pain patients". Brain. 138 (3): 604–615. doi:10.1093/brain/awu377. PMC 4339770. PMID 25582579.
  5. ^ a b c Albrecht, Daniel S.; Forsberg, Anton; Sandström, Angelica; Bergan, Courtney; Kadetoff, Diana; Protsenko, Ekaterina; Lampa, Jon; Lee, Yvonne C.; Höglund, Caroline Olgart; Catana, Ciprian; Cervenka, Simon; Akeju, Oluwaseun; Lekander, Mats; Cohen, George; Halldin, Christer; Taylor, Norman; Kim, Minhae; Hooker, Jacob M.; Edwards, Robert R.; Napadow, Vitaly; Kosek, Eva; Loggia, Marco L. (January 1, 2019). "Brain glial activation in fibromyalgia – A multi-site positron emission tomography investigation". Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 75: 72–83. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2018.09.018. PMC 6541932. PMID 30223011.
  6. ^ Wasan, Ajay D.; Loggia, Marco L.; Chen, Li Q.; Napadow, Vitaly; Kong, Jian; Gollub, Randy L. (August 1, 2011). "Neural Correlates of Chronic Low Back Pain Measured by Arterial Spin Labeling". Anesthesiology. 115 (2): 364–374. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318220e880. PMC 3286828. PMID 21720241.
  7. ^ Loggia, Marco Luciano; Segerdahl, Andrew Reilly; Howard, Matthew Alexander; Tracey, Irene (May 15, 2019). "Imaging Clinically Relevant Pain States Using Arterial Spin Labeling". Pain Reports. 4 (4): e750. doi:10.1097/PR9.0000000000000750. PMC 6690842. PMID 31406952.
  8. ^ "A New Kind Of Brain Scan Can See Your Pain, Literally". Popular Science. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  9. ^ "Hurt blocker: To treat chronic pain, look to the brain not body". www.newscientist.com. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  10. ^ "Chronic Pain Associated with Activation of Brain's Glial Cells". Scientific American. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  11. ^ "'Seeing' Lower Back Pain in the Brain". ABC News. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  12. ^ Aluffi, Giuliano. "il Venerdì' di Repubblica". Retrieved Oct 4, 2019.
  13. ^ "Un'infiammazione cerebrale tra le cause della fibromialgia | Sky TG24". tg24.sky.it. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  14. ^ a b "Breakthrough on chronic pain". Harvard Gazette. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  15. ^ "Marco Loggia, Ph.D." loggialab.mgh.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  16. ^ Andrews, Neil (2016-12-09). "Talking Pain Brain Imaging With Award-Winning Young Investigator Marco Loggia". Pain Research Forum. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  17. ^ "Top 10 Cell Science News Stories of 2018 | Technology Networks". www.technologynetworks.com. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  18. ^ "2021 Distinguished Investigator Awards" (PDF). Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research.
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