Dr Josée Guindon is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience and Graduate Advisor in the Translational Neuroscience and Pharmacology Graduate Concentration at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). She has obtained her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine in 2000, Master in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2007 from Université de Montréal. She did her post-doctoral training at University of Georgia with Dr. Andrea G. Hohmann for which she received a substantial post-doctoral fellowship from the Fonds de la Recherche du Québec en Santé (FRQS). Since Dr. Guindon started her laboratory at TTUHSC in 2014, she has been continuously funded by The CH Foundation, Garrison Institute on Aging, Texas Center for Comparative Cancer Research, and NIH. Dr Guindon got awarded her first R01 from NIDA to study mechanisms of cannabinoid tolerance. Dr. Guindon won several career awards. Indeed, in 2019, she won the TTUHSC President Early Career Investigator Award and, in 2016, the Unsung Hero Award honored by the Provost and Dean of TTUHSC. She has already published more than 47 manuscripts and 7 first-authored book chapters as well as giving more than 50 invited seminars for local and international conferences. Dr. Guindon is an expert in the behavioral, pharmacological, biochemical, and transgenic analysis of pain mechanisms, using various pain models and investigating sex differences. She has greatly contributed and pioneered, neural and brain endocannabinoid mechanisms that regulate and modulate pain and how they influence sex hormones. Therefore, opening new and novel understandings of the ways pain is transmitted through the nervous system and interacting with the endocannabinoid system. Dr Guindon has also been developing new translational models and discovering novel approaches to study the pharmacological management of chronic pain and cancer.