The Genetics of Pain: Science, Medicine, and Drug Development - Miami Beach, February 7-9, 2012

With this IASP symposium we will:

Discuss key issues in pain research, including promising ongoing research, unanswered questions, emerging concepts Emphasize translational research as the key to understanding mechanisms of susceptibility to chronic pain, and developing preventative approaches and novel treatment strategies Explore the latest findings of genetic and genomic mediation of nociception from various models, emphasizing the conservation of pain-related genes, their functions and their advantages Discuss the role of gene polymorphisms in normal and pathological modulation of pain in models, humans, and as future drug targets Explore the latest findings from human genome-wide investigation of genomic variability and gene expression on pain and nociception Review and discuss "gold standard" tools for comprehensive pain phenotyping in humans Review and discuss current and future genetic and genomic techniques to study genetic contribution to human pain Summarize the progress of cutting-edge clinical trials and those steps required to translate present research findings to clinical practice Create a forum for the exchange of ideas on the impact of modern genetics on pain research

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