Dr. Largent-Milnes received her Ph.D. in Medical Pharmacology from the University of Arizona in 2010 and was an F32 funded postdoctoral fellow at Oregon Health and Science University in Physiology and Pharmacology. She returned to the University of Arizona to start her independent research program (2014). Her long-term research interests focus on how behavior is influenced by both disease pathology and pharmacotherapy. Overarching themes of the Largent-Milnes lab are to better understand the underlying neurophysiology and pathophysiology of chronic pain and drug misuse/abuse to develop novel therapeutics to improve patient quality of life. She has published 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is currently funded as a PI by NINDS and the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission and serves as a co-investigator on two NIDA grants.