Hannah Derue

Hannah Derue, PhD Candidate (Neuroscience) at McGill University’s Ribeiro-da-Silva and Mogil labs at the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain (AECRP). Her specialization is in chronic pain and opioid addiction. She has conducted research in to the subjectivity of pain experience and is currently working on AI based generation of two-dimensional visual representation of the chronic pain experience for therapeutic purposes.

Hannah Derue will be speaking at the Digital Collections Summit 2025:

From Art Museum to Innovation: Transforming Pain Management

Can an art museum collection inspire scientific breakthroughs beyond the traditional space of the lab? What if the key to breakthroughs in research lies not just in the lab, but also in the museum? This panel will discuss how a team from McGill University combined open access image data from the National Gallery of Art with cutting-edge neuroscience and AI work to unlock hidden patterns and novel insights to pain, offering fresh insights and therapeutic possibilities. Learn how scientists and art museums are embracing use of AI in the service of creativity and cross-disciplinary collaboration to revolutionize our understanding and treatment of chronic pain by focusing on the power of art.