As billions of people globally suffer from pain, it has become a huge problem, with the value of the pharmaceutical market for pain relief reflecting this worldwide epidemic. As a result, new research techniques and drugs are urgently required for a range of chronic pain syndromes.
Returning for its 15th year we are proud to present the UK’s premier event, the 15th Annual
Pain Therapeutics Conference, 18th – 19th May 2015, London, UK. Through a series of interactive presentations and panel discussions, this event will give you access to key industry leaders, spotlighting principles and illustrative examples on current activities and trends in clinical and pre-clinical evidence-based and best-practice-based pain medicine. Highlighting research and developments in the field of pain relief this is an event that you will not want to miss!
Key topics include:
- The continuing role of opiods in treating chronic pain
- Chronic pain as a reversible brain problem
- Neurostimulation and its positive impact on the quality of their lives
- Animal models and pain – what is new?
- Pain and biomarkers
Benefits of Attending
The two day networking event will review recent advances in
pain and therapeutics and new and novel developments. Join us and gain in depth knowledge by:
- Hearing cutting edge presentations from key players in pain therapeutics
- Providing comprehensive information on the current therapeutic developmental pipeline
- Learning about key capabilities to create effective counter strategies for the side effects of pain relief
Plus Two Interactive Half-Day Post-Conference Workshops | Wednesday 20th May 2015
In vitro techniques and models for pain drug development: “Clinical trial in a dish”Workshop Leaders: Dr Uma Anand, Research Associate, Medicine, Imperial College London
Professor Praveen Anand, Professor Neurology, Medicine, Imperial College London
Professor Yuri Korchev, Professor of Biophysiology, Medicine, Imperial College London
Dr Andrew Shevchuk, Non Clinical Lecturer In Nano-Medicine, Medicine, Imperial College London
8.30am – 12.30pm
Healthcare Innovation - A patient centred approachWorkshop Leader: Zakera Kali, Founder, Insight Consultancy
1.30pm – 5.30pm
Speakers
- Alexander Oksche, Exec Director European Pharmacol Intelligence, Mundipharma
- Anthony Ford, Chief Scientific Officer, Afferent Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Anthony Jones, Professor of Neuro-Rheumatology, Human Pain Research Group, University of Manchester
- Dr Gregor Bahrenberg, Associate Scientific Director, Grunenthal
- Dr. Johan A. den Boer, Psychiatrist Director Scientific Affairs & Professor of Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, PRA Health Sciences
- Emanuele Sher, Senior Research Advisor, Neuroscience Discovery, Lilly Research Centre, Eli Lilly
- Gareth Young, Senior Scientist, Pfizer Neusentis
- Geert Jan Groeneveld, Research Director Neurology & Pain, CNS Department, Centre for Human Drug Research
- Ian Bell, Principal Scientist, Discovery Chemistry, Merck
- Jordi Serra, Chief Scientific Officer, Neuroscience Technologies
- Luana Colloca, Associate Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Special volunteer, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH, Bethesda
- Mark T Brown, MD, Executive Director, Tanezumab Clinical Program Leader for Osteoarthritis and Cancer Pain Studies, Pfizer
- Remigiusz Lecybyl, Consultant in Chronic Pain, University Hospital Lewisham
- Richard Butt, Senior Director, Research Project Leader, Clinical Research, Pfizer
- Richard Knowles, CEO, Arachos Pharma
- Shahnaz Yusaf, Investigator Biopharm Innovation BDU, GlaxoSmithKline
- Simon Tate, Chief Scientific Officer, Convergence Pharmaceuticals
- Steven Andrews, Director of Drug Discovey, Array BioPharma
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Venue
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Who Should Attend
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Scientific Officers, Managing Directors, Head of Department, Team Leaders, Principal Research Scientists in the following fields:
- Pain and Migraine
- Inflammation
- Chronic Pain
- Neuropathic Pain
- Analgesic pre-clinical development
- Anaesthesia and Pain Management
- CNS clinical trials
- Ion Channel Pharmacology
- Pharmacology Intelligence
Venue
Holiday Inn London BloomsburyCoram Street
London, WC1N 1HT
United Kingdom
