| Spring Pain Conference 2008, Session Topics
Session #1 Voltage-gated Ion Channels (Calcium)
Gerald Zamponi (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada) Chair
Session #2 CB2 Mechanisms: Selective Agonists and Pain
Praveen Anand (Imperial College London, London UK) Chair
Session #3 MAP Kinases and Pain
Ru-Rong Ji (Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard, Boston, MA, USA) co-Chair
Gary Strichartz (Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard, Boston, MA, USA) co-Chair
Session #4 Cytokines and Pain
Richard Torres (Regeneron Pharma Inc., Tarrytown, NY, USA) Chair
Session #5 Clinical Trial Results of TRPV1 Compounds
Narendar Gavva (Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA) Chair
Session #6 Sodium Channels and Pain
Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj (Yale Univ. School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA) Chair
Session #7 Bone Fracture and Pain
Pat Mantyh (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA) Chair
Session #8 Endothelins and their Role in Cancer Pain
Guy Hans (Antwerp Univ. Hospital, Belgium) Chair
Session # 9 Peripheral Opioid Mechanisms
Robert Spencer (Cara Therapeutics Inc. Shelton, CT, USA) Chair
Session #10 Rapid Pain Modulation with Nuclear Receptor Ligands
Bradley Taylor (Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA, USA) Chair
Session #11 Chemokines and Pain
Catherine Abbadie (Merck Research Labs, NJ, USA) Chair
Session #12 Mechanisms of Chronic Central Neuropathic Pain
Claire Hulsebosch (Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA) Chair
Data Blitz
Session #13 Controlling the gain in the pain: receptors that modulate visceral afferent function.
Gerald F. Gebhart (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) co-Chair
Brian M. Davis (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) co-Chair
Session #14 Development, plasticity and modulation of visceral afferents
Brian M. Davis (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) co-Chair
Gerald F. Gebhart (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) co-Chair
Session #15 Forebrain Pain Mechanisms
Volker Neugebauer (Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA) Chair
Session #16 Descending Control
Mary Heinricher (Oregon Health & Science Univ., Portland, OR, USA) Chair
Session #17 Nucleotides and Cutaneous Mechanisms of Nociception
Gregory Dussor (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA) co-Chair
Derek Molliver (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) co-Chair
Session #18 Metabotropic receptors for Glutamate, GABA and pain
Jean-Philippe Pin (Inst. of Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France) Co-chair
Cyril Goudet (Inst. of Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France) Co-chair
Session #19 Role of Microglia in Chronic Pain Conditions
Michael H. Ossipov (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA) Chair
Session #20 Chloride Regulation in the Pain Pathway
Ted Price (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA) Chair
Session #21 Mechanisms of Analgesic Tolerance to Opioids and Cannabinoids
Rohini Kuner (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany) Chair
Session # 22 TRP Channels and Pain
Cheryl Stucky (Med College Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA) Chair
Session #23 Predicting therapeutic efficacy - experimental pain in human subjects
Tony Priestley (Schering-Plough Research Institute, Kenilworth, NJ, USA) Chair
Session #24 Modulation of TRPA1 and TRPV1 as a Peripheral Pain Mechanism
Kenneth Hargreaves (Univ. of Texas HSC, San Antonio, TX, USA) Chair
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