Dr Davies’ research focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of traumatic nerve injury and neuropathic pain. He completed his PhD training in neurophysiology with Professor R. Alan North at the University of Manchester. During postdoctoral training at Seoul National University in the lab of Professor Seog Bae Oh in South Korea his work led to discoveries in spinal mechanisms of neuropathic pain and a clinically-relevant treatment for dental pain. Subsequently, as a NRF Junior Research Fellow, he led a team of international collaborators to reveal a novel immune mechanism of axon degeneration after peripheral nerve injury. Since moving to the University of Oxford, he has developed the translational potential of his work through the study human neuro-immune interactions in vitro, and the phenotyping of immune cell function in patients recovering from nerve injury. Dr Davies was recently awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in which he will investigate the mechanisms of cellular cytotoxicity in immune-mediated recovery from nerve injury. His long-term goals are to translate these biological discoveries into novel immune therapies for neuropathic pain.