Program of the School
July 5, SUNDAY (Hotel Galaxy)
16-19 registration
19.00 Welcome and introduction (short description of the School purpose and program) –
organizers – Barbara Przewlocka & Andreas Kopf
President of EFIC – Chris Wells: Welcome from EFIC President, Education and
Research initiatives
President of the Polish Association for the Study of Pain - Jan Dobrogowski
Andreas Kopf Berlin – opening lecture: Role of Education in Pain Medicine
20.00 – Get together
July 6, MONDAY (Institute of Pharmacology)
9.45 – Welcome notes, Krzysztof Wedzony, director of Institute of Pharmacology
10.00-11.00 – Tony Dickenson London - Translational impact of basic research in the
knowledge of chronic pain mechanisms
11.00-11.30 – Coffee break
11.30-12.00 – Katarzyna Starowicz Krakow Inflammatory pain – animal study
Joanna Mika Krakow - Neuropathic pain – animal study.
12.00-13.00 – Workshop: Presentation of animal pain tests in chronic pain models
(neuropathic pain and osteoarthritis).
13.00-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.00 – Luis Villanueva Paris - Is it possible to study primary headache
mechanisms in rodents?
15.00-16.00 – Halina Machelska Berlin - Experimental design and data interpretation in
basic pain research
16.00-17.00 – student’s presentations and general discussion (student’s questions)
Hotel Galaxy
18.00 – Dinner
19.00-20.00 – Hermann Handwerker Erlangen - How to publish a paper on your pain
research - information, problems and pitfalls
20.00 – 21.00 guided walking tour of the Jewish district of Kazimierz (for those willing)
July 7, TUESDAY (Hotel Galaxy)
9.00-10.00 – Per Hansson Oslo/Stockholm - Is there a gap between basic and clinical
research on pain?
10.00-11.00 – Dorit Pud Haifa - Utility of human pain models in studying pain
mechanisms
11.00-11.30 – coffee break and tutoring session
11.30-12.30 – Michaela Kress Innsbruck - Translational talk on neurogenic
inflammation
12.30-13.30 – Student’s presentations and general discussion
13.30-14.30 – Lunch
14.30 – Krakow and Wieliczka Salt Mine Guided Tour and Dinner in Wieliczka
July 8, WEDNESDAY (Hotel Galaxy)
9.00-10.00 – Jurgen Sandkuhler Vienna - Central sensitization mechanisms elicited by
peripheral inputs
10.00-11.00 – Tony Dickenson London - Pain-related sensitization: peripheral, central or
both ?
11.00-11.30 – coffee break and tutoring session
11.30-12.30 – Pierrick Poisbeau Strasbourg - New research models (optogenetic techniques
for the study of interactions of stress and pain in rodents),
12.30-13.30 – Luis Villanueva Paris - Functional ultrasound brain imaging combined
with in vivo electrophysiology in rodents: a new tool for deciphering maladaptive pain
mechanisms
13.30-14.30 – Lunch
14.30-15.30 – Per Hansson Oslo/Stockholm - Neurologist view of translational research
on neuropathic pain
15.30-16.30 – Eija Kalso Helsinki – Individual nature of responsiveness to pain treatment
16.30-17.00 – coffee break
17.00-18.00 – Rafael Maldonado Barcelona – Cannabinoids and pain - from bench to
bedside
18.00-19.00 – Hans Kress Vienna – Cannabinoids and pain - from bench to bedside
20.00 – Dinner / Old Town, Faculty and Students
July 9, THURSDAY (Hotel Galaxy)
9.00-10.00 – Dorit Pud Haifa – Translational aspects of endogenous pain modulation
10.00-11.00 – Ulrike Bingel Essen - Placebo effects, methodological issues and clinical
impact
11.00-11.30 – coffee break and tutoring session
11.30-12.30 – Christoph Stein Berlin - Conflicts of interest in research and therapeutics
12.30-13.30 – Student’s presentations and general discussion
13.30 – summary, conclusions and closing the school