Timothy J. Meeker, PhD (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Morgan State University.

Dr. Meeker completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the Department of Neurosurgery in 2022 and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences under the mentorship of Joel Greenspan in 2017 at University of Maryland, Baltimore.

At MSU, Dr. Meeker works on two NIH-funded programs at MSU: A Student-Centered, Entrepreneurship Development (ASCEND) and Research Centers for Minority Institutes (RCMI), and investigates the neural mechanisms associated with racial disparities in pain sensitivity in healthy people and patients with neuropathic pain.

Dr. Meeker’s research is focused on the role of anxiety in attentional mechanisms related to pain in humans, the potential analgesic mechanism of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIB), neural correlates of mechanical pain and hyperalgesia and the functional connectivity of the Descending Pain Modulatory Network (DPMN).

Publications can be found on ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1833-6536 or on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=meeker+tj