Sarah Ross, PhD is Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Director of the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research. Her research focuses on understanding the neural circuits underlying pain and itch, particularly how sensory information is processed in the spinal cord and regulated by descending pathways from the brain. Dr. Ross's work has helped identify inhibitory spinal circuits that suppress itch and has advanced the understanding of how spinal circuits encode and process somatosensory information.