IASP Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NeuPSIG) Workshop: Update on Advances in Basic Science

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Attendance is free for IASP members, though registration is still required. A registration fee of $25 is required for non-IASP members. To become an IASP member, you can join here. Trainee memberships are $50 per year, while regular memberships are $180 or $230 per year, depending on income level.

This workshop will focus on the recent advances in basic science on neuropathic pain. It will address novel basic and translational mechanisms contributing to neuropathic pain, with a particular focus on proteomics and sex-specific molecular phenotyping in models of neuropathic pain.

Presentations:
-- Michael Burton, PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
TLR4 Mediated Sex-Specific Cellular Phenotyping in Neuropathic Pain

-- Manuela Schmidt, PhD, University of Vienna, Austria
Profiling the Proteomic Landscape of Neuropathic Pain

-- Nurcan Üçeyler, MD, University of Würzburg, Germany
Neuropathic Pain - Diverse Perspectives

Moderator:
-- Fani Neto, PhD, University of Porto, Portugal

Contributors

Michael Burton, PhD

Dr. Michael Burton is an Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Program at The University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on how the immune system modulates peripheral sensory neurons to regulate pain, depression, and energy homeostasis. Dr. Burton received his BS and PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center and UT Dallas. He has been recognized as an early career award winner by the Society for Neuroscience, Endocrine Society, the American Pain Society, the American Society for Cell Biology, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) (Mitchell Max Award), and the Rita Allen Foundation. He believes in order to traverse the gap between basic research and clinical application to patients, we must realize and appreciate pre-clinical research. His long-term goal is to develop a leading research program and dedicate his career to studying neuroimmune interactions, as well as mentor highly motivated undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees.

DISCLOSURE: Nothing to disclose.
Manuela Schmidt, PhD

Manuela Schmidt, PhD, has worked on ion channels and their regulation in the context of pain since her postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Ardem Patapoutian (HHMI, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA). In 2012, she returned to Germany as an independent group leader with funding from the Emmy Nother-Programme (German Research Foundation, DFG) at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine (Goettingen, Germany). In 2019, she got promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Goettingen. Since September 2020, she has been a Full Professor heading the Division of Pharmacology Toxicology at the University of Vienna, Austria. Manuela´s laboratory “Systems Biology of Pain” integrates preclinical mouse models and human surrogate models with state-of-the-art quantitative proteomics to tackle mechanisms underlying (chronic) pain states. In this way, her laboratory strives to gain mechanistic insights into age- and sex-dependent pain pathology – an endeavor, which lies at the heart of both understanding the molecular signature of chronic pain and identifying novel pain players.

DISCLOSURE:Astellas Pharma: Grant/Research Support (Status: Terminated --- 2019); Biognosys AG (Both Myself and my Spouse/Partner) : Grant/Research Support (Status: Terminated --- 2015); Grünenthal GmbH (Germany): Consultant (Status: Terminated --- 2019), one-time consulting honoraria (Status: Terminated --- 2019)
Nurcan Üçeyler, MD

Nurcan Üçeyler, MD, is a neurologist and neuroscientist in the Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Germany, where she is a Heisenberg-Professor for Translational Somatosensorics. Her research field is the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain, small fiber pathology, and neuropathies. Together with her team, Prof. Üçeyler combines clinical and basic science research using advanced clinical, in vivo, and in vitro models to investigate pain and neuropathy conditions such as small fiber neuropathy, fibromyalgia, and genetic pain syndromes.

DISCLOSURE: Nothing to disclose.
Fani Neto, PhD

Fani Neto, PhD, finished a Degree in Biochemistry - Applied Biochemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (FCUP) and the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar of University of Porto (ICBAS), Portugal, in 1994. In the same year, she joined the 2nd PGDBM (Gulbenkian Doctoral Program in Biology and Medicine) and attended the first curricular year of the Doctoral Program until September 1995. In November 1995, she went to The Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, to do part of the experimental work for her PhD thesis, under the supervision of Professor Thomas R. Tölle. Returning to Portugal in June 1997, she continued her PhD experimental work at the Institute of Histology and Embryology Abel Salazar (now Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Experimental Biology) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), under the supervision of Professor José Manuel Castro Lopes. She defended her PhD in the mechanisms of chronic pain in July 2001 at FMUP and then Joined the FMUP faculty as an assistant professor in October 2001. Since then, she has been engaged in pre- and post-graduate teaching and coordination of courses, supervision of undergraduate, master, PhD and postdoc students, coordination of classes at different levels and co-coordination of scientific projects. She is a co-author in numerous papers in the field of pain research and participated several times as a jury member in the Grünenthal Pain Prize, and in PhD, master, and undergraduate theses defenses. Habilitation in Neurosciences at FMUP in May 2018.