About


George Goodwin is a Research Fellow at the Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre. His research focuses on understanding the neurobiology of arthritis pain, with the goal of identifying new drug targets for more effective analgesic therapies. His lab uses a range of approaches, including in vivo calcium imaging, transgenic mouse lines, behavioural assays and histology, to study sensory neurons in mouse models of rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. The current focus of his research is to define the role of silent nociceptors - specialised sensory neurons that become activated following inflammation - in arthritis pain.

Publications


In vivo calcium imaging shows that dorsal root ganglion stimulation predominantly activates large-sized sensory neurons in mice


George L Goodwin, Glenn Franken

bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2025, pp. 2025--05


Using in vivo calcium imaging to examine joint neuron spontaneous activity and home cage analysis to monitor activity changes in mouse models of arthritis


George L Goodwin, Alina-Cristina Marin, Julia Vlachaki Walker, Carl Hobbs, Franziska Denk

Arthritis Research \& Therapy, vol. 27, BioMed Central London, 2025, p. 67


Spontaneous activity in peripheral sensory nerves: a systematic review


Dongchan Choi, George Goodwin, Edward B Stevens, Nadia Soliman, Barbara Namer, Franziska Denk

Pain, vol. 165, LWW, 2024, pp. 983--996


Assessing spontaneous sensory neuron activity using in vivo calcium imaging


Sonia Ingram, Kim I Chisholm, Feng Wang, Yves De Koninck, Franziska Denk, George L Goodwin

Pain, vol. 165, LWW, 2024, pp. 1131--1141


In vivo calcium imaging shows that satellite glial cells have increased activity in painful states


Sara E Jager, George Goodwin, Kim I Chisholm, Franziska Denk

Brain Communications, vol. 6, Oxford University Press US, 2024, pp. fcae013


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