Justin Burdge, PhD
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Justin Burdge, PhD
@justinburdge.bsky.social
Neuroscience researcher working to improve how we conduct pain and touch research. Co-Founder Tactorum Inc. Post Doctoral Fellow Abraira Lab Rutgers University.
If you’re at Society for Neuroscience 2025 today, and interested in improving and automating evoked touch and pain assays, come check out my poster at G13! #SFN25 #SFN #PainResearch
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Excited to present our latest work improving and validating our ARM system for automating evoked touch and pain assays at @sfn.org this weekend! Come check it out if you’re interested in automating your own work. #PainResearch #SFN #SFN2025
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Excited to announce the first NYC Area Pain meetup being hosted at NYU. Come connect with other pain researchers and learn about the advances being made by early career researchers.

RSVP: luma.com/m5zwchlt?tk=...

Still accepting submissions for lightening talks, reach out if interested.
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Excited to announce my thesis paper with is now in print at ELIfe! Excited to share our updated work on automating evoked touch/pain assays in rodents, and the further advancements we’ve made for #PainResearch!

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Nothing makes you hungrier than a time zone change and a missed lunch. Looking forward to these tacos, Seattle let’s see what you’ve got!
May 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Enjoyed my first times in Chicago and @usasp.bsky.social this past week! So much exciting work happening in the pain field, I have a feeling that the groundwork for some fantastic collaborations was laid this week!
May 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It took so much work to get here, but excited for everything we now have in the pipeline! It’s going to be an exciting month!
April 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
So excited to announce the first of TACTORUM’s ARM devices for automating pain/touch assays in mice has been delivered to @changsbrain.bsky.social ‘s lab at @northwellhealth.bsky.social. Looking forward to all the exciting questions they will explore with it!
April 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Oh to be a dog sleeping in an armchair instead of a scientist working on a grant… #Science #Neuroskyence
November 24, 2024 at 6:54 PM
We are now working to improve this device and get it into the labs of early adopter. Excited for what comes next!
November 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
This led me to invent a device called the ARM (Automated Reproducible Mechanostimulator) to automate stimulus delivery and perform these experiments remotely!
November 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
New app and so many new followers, so I’ll do a quick skydive on my work over the years using automation and high speed imaging to improve the techniques we use to measure pain in rodents! #PainResearch #Neuroscience
November 22, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Had a great time today presenting our preclinical pain assay automation tech at Columbia & SUNY pitch day! Excited to bring this tech to more labs with my co-founders Ishmail Abdus-Saboor and Agnes Gjekmarkaj. #Pain #PreclinicalPain #PainResearch
November 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM