**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Rashid Giniatullin** is working at the University of Eastern Finland. He graduated from Kazan Medical University in 1977, where he received a PhD in Physiology in 1981 and the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences in 1992. He worked as Professor of Physiology at Kazan Medical University from 1993 to 2000. From 2000 to 2008, he was a Visiting Professor at SISSA, Trieste, Italy. In 2008, he was elected as Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Eastern Finland. His main research interests are molecular and cellular mechanisms of pain, migraine pathophysiology, synaptic transmission, ligand-gated receptors, desensitization, and signalling via reactive oxygen species
