Maria Venihaki (Ph.D.) is currently working as an Associate Professor at the University of Crete, School of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine. Her Research Interests include the Role of neuropeptides and neurosteroids on physiological and pathophysiological (stress) conditions. Specifically, she studies the role of the above molecules: on cutaneous wound healing and skin pathologies; on inflammation and inflammation-induced analgesia; on the molecular mechanisms and the signaling pathways involved in the interaction between neuropeptides/neurosteroids and pain.