David Finn is professor of pharmacology and therapeutics. He is also Principal Investigator and Founding Co-Director of the Centre for Pain Research at University of Galway. The overall aim of Professor Finn's research is to increase our understanding of the neurobiology of pain and psychiatric disorders including anxiety and depression. His work focuses, in particular, on the affective and cognitive dimensions of pain, stress-pain interactions, and neuroinflammatory processes, with an emphasis on the endogenous cannabinoid, opioid and monoaminergic systems.