Janny de Grauw is a veterinarian with a PhD in synovial joint homeostasis. She is a European board certified specialist in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia (Dip. ECVAA). She works as a senior lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia at the Royal Veterinary College London, and currently holds a distance research association as a senior post-doc at the Utrecht University Department of Clinical Sciences.

Embedded in the Utrecht University Regenerative Medicine Stem cells and Cancer focus area, she takes a special interest in joint inflammation, pain and pharmacological management thereof in human and animal patients. Recently, the recognition, neurobiology and management of chronic pain in animals (and humans) has become a focus of Janny's research, which has been awarded a ZonMW MKMD Syrcle grant, a Morris Animal Foundation grant and a Centre for Unusual Collaborations grant.