Had a great first day of programming at #NAPainSchool. Some great talks by trainees and visiting faculty today! Looking forward to day two talking about #chronicpain!

Join us for the Gulf Coast Consortia #Pain2026 Workshop focused on Orofacial Pain! 🗓 July 17, 2026 ⏰ 1:00–2:00 p.m. CT 💻 Virtual via Zoom 🎟 Free registration Registration link: buff.ly/MMrv2CB #Pain2026 #USASP #OrofacialPain

On the bus headed to Montebello for a week of learning and fun at #NAPainSchool

Excited to share that I received the NOA for my HEAL K99/R00 award! I am so grateful to my amazing mentors who helped me at all stages of my training and supported me to get this far! @sarahross1.bsky.social @rpseal.bsky.social @khannalabuf.bsky.social @frankporreca.bsky.social

A big thank you to our incredible partner, @usasp.bsky.social for sponsoring the participation of a trainee at #NAPainSchool! We’re proud to work together in empowering future #pain researchers. 💫 👏 Welcome @hstratton.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social

Just 2 weeks left to apply: Tenure-track faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh for someone studying the mechanisms of pain. Looking for interactive colleagues. Please spread the word! Info here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Thank you @usasp.bsky.social and #NAPainSchool! I am truly grateful for this opportunity and chance to learn from the best this summer! 😎🙌

North American Pain School@napainschool.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A big thank you to our incredible partner, @usasp.bsky.social for sponsoring the participation of a trainee at #NAPainSchool! We’re proud to work together in empowering future #pain researchers. 💫 👏 Welcome @hstratton.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social

join us for a webinar on descending modulation by Pain Research Forum happening now! painresearchforum.org/upcoming-web...

Upcoming Webinar: New Developments in Descending Modulation with Drs. Patrik Ernfors, Kirsty Bannister and Frank Porreca April 23, 2026 12 PM ET - Pain Research Forum

The pain research forum presents New Developments in Descending Modulation with Drs. Patrik Ernfors, Kirsty Bannister and Frank Porreca

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Have you heard who the speakers of the distinguished Keynote Prize Lectures will be for #IASP2026? Check out @iasp.bsky.social President Andrew Rice’s announcement on #PRF to find out now bit.ly/47ZGkWt

Have you wondered what it’s like creating a special journal issue is like? Listen to Episode 2 of the Pain Exchange #podcast from @iasp.bsky.social with @karenddavis.bsky.social discussing the 50th Anniversary supplement of @painthejournal.bsky.social bit.ly/4ox3B7i #PRF #academicpublishing

Fascinating new work reveals how anti-CV2/CRMP5 autoantibodies may be a potential driver of neuropathic pain in paraneoplastic syndromes. This mechanistic insight suggests a new therapeutic approach for patients. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anti-CV2/CRMP5 autoantibodies as drivers of sensory neuron excitability and pain in rats - Nature Communications

Lung and thymoma cancer patients often suffer from autoimmunity and related painful neuropathies. Here the authors show that patient-derived anti-CRMP5 autoantibody binds to rat dorsal root ganglia to...

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So excited to share our preprint uncovering FGFR3 autoantibodies as pathogenic drivers of pain sensitization. Using patient serum, human DRG and rat models, we found that autoantibodies can find FGFR3 on sensory neurons to induce hyperexcitability and hypersensitivity. #PainResearch #Autoimmunity

Pathogenic Role of FGFR3 Autoantibodies in Small Fiber Neuropathy

Sensory neuronopathies (SNN) and small fiber neuropathies (SFN) are debilitating disorders associated with neuropathic pain, yet their underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Autoantibodies ag...

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The latest papers published in pain research are now on PRF! Dr. Alex Chesler provides a curated list for Aug. 22-28, 2025 and a commentary on his pick for Paper of the Week! painresearchforum.org/paper @utdpaincenter.bsky.social @nyupainresearch.bsky.social @iasp.bsky.social @usasp.bsky.social

Webinar – 8 September Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Exploratory Human Research Register: bit.ly/478tBk2 ML/AI approaches are currently redrawing statistics, as they demonstrate an ability to separate complex data finding unpredicted patterns. #PainEducation

Please consider donating. This is an incredible resource that is the foundation for so much of what we know in biology.

FlyBase@flybase.bsky.social · 12mo ago

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

very well done video on what is happening to basic health research right now all over the US: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

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Can't wait to read this preprint from Misha Ahrens and team. Calcium imaging in larval zebrafish, in every cell in the body! Amazing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The list of the latest published pain papers is out now on PRF! Dr. Qiufu Ma's curated list for August 15-21, 2025 and his choice for Editor's pick can be found here: painresearchforum.org/paper @iasp.bsky.social @nyupainresearch.bsky.social @utdpaincenter.bsky.social @sutherlandphd.bsky.social

This work is finally online as in-press preview! JCI - Cell and molecular profiles in peripheral nerves shift toward inflammatory phenotypes in diabetic peripheral neuropathy www.jci.org/articles/vie...

A big game changer in the CRMP2 game bringing together old and new litterature and further validating CRMP2 phosphorylation at S522 as a excellent therapeutic target for alleviating pain.

PAIN@painthejournal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Jiang et al. find that collapsin response mediator protein 2 phosphorylation in CD4+ T cells affects spinal infiltration and pain modulation, hinting at novel therapies for rheumatoid arthritis–related chronic pain. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/3HnqDO4

Really enjoyed going to see the Steeler's preseason game yesterday! The Steeler's played well but in the end lost to Tampa Bay. It was my first time to a Steeler's game and I have to say I enjoyed it. Although it was very hot!

This preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... is now accepted for publication in JCI! Heavily revised manuscript with tons of exciting new data should be online soon. Huge congrats to @dianatavf.bsky.social who led this project with incredible creativity and skill, just like she always does!

Deciphering the molecular landscape of human peripheral nerves: implications for diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a prevalent complication of diabetes mellitus that is caused by metabolic toxicity to peripheral axons. We aimed to gain deep mechanistic insight into the disea...

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What do you think Lee et al.’s findings in @natcomms.nature.com of a feedforward amplification circuit for cool sensation, as well as a modality-specific spinal pathway for thermal processing, do for our understanding of thermosensation? bit.ly/3JlS8rS #PRF

Hats off to lead author Tony Lim who drove this project from writing the fellowship application, to establishing new techniques in the lab. We developed a reversible self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) system that encodes innate immune suppression directly within saRNA. Next step, in vivo!

eLife@elife.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A promising new approach for self-amplifying RNA that avoids triggering strong inflammatory responses in cells, paving the way for safer, longer-lasting gene therapies without immune suppression. buff.ly/xQWCPhJ

Just posted on Pain Research Forum! Dr. Greg Scherrer's curated list of pain-related papers published August 1-7, 2025 and his choice for Editor's pick. Check it out at painresearchforum.org @iasp.bsky.social @nyupainresearch.bsky.social @utdpaincenter.bsky.social @sutherlandphd.bsky.social

Check out our new paper in Nature Communications! CRMP5 is a central regulator of pain and DRG hyper-excitability!

Aubin Moutal@aubinmoutal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I’m proud to share that our first paper from the lab has just been published in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This work uncovers a mechanism by which autoantibodies targeting CRMP5 contribute to neuropathic pain in paraneoplastic syndromes. #PainResearch

What do you think Li et al.’s findings in @natcomms.nature.com of a non-canonical dynorphin receptor does to change our understanding of the endogenous opioid system? bit.ly/3J9hxoA #EditorsPick #PRF

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget

Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.

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Do you have any questions about the current understanding and treatment of #migraine? Check out the newest episode of the Pain Beat moderated by @julietmwirigi.bsky.social! bit.ly/3GGjCYu #podcast #newepisode #PRF