Averitt earns Outstanding Research Award

Feb. 27, 2025 — DENTON — Dayna Averitt, PhD, of the Texas Woman's University Biology Division, has been named recipient of the Outstanding Research Award from The SHIFT Event.

The award is for Averitt's work understanding how women experience pain differently than men, leading to advances in pain management, neurosensory research and development of non-opioid therapeutics. Averitt has worked to uncover the biological mechanisms behind pain perception and personalized treatments for women who suffer from chronic pain.

Averitt has investigated sex differences in pain and opioid analgesia and exploring peripheral nervous system mechanisms to better understand pain disorders and identify potential treatment pathways.

Averitt will be honored at The SHIFT Event on March 29, 2025, in Dallas.

The SHIFT Event: Elevating Women’s Health in North Texas & Beyond, is a conference to close the 20+ year gap in midlife women’s healthcare and position North Texas as a center of excellence in midlife care.