News & Events

The International Pain Summer School 2016, which took place from 4th to 8th July, 2016 at the Schlosswirtschaftshotel, Herrenchiemsee, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany, was organized by Rohini Kuner, Principal Investigator of ncRNAPain beneficiary Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg, and attracted 47 national as well as international doctoral students and junior postdoctoral trainees. The Summer School...

Frank Birklein from ncRNAPain partner Universitaetsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz was invited to give a plenary lecture at this year’s scientific meeting of The British Pain Society, held in Harrogate, UK, from 10th to 12th May 2016. In his lecture on “A helicopter view on CRPS - highlights of 20 years of research and its relevance to practice” he summarized two decades of...

The Collaborative Research Centre 1158 “From nociception to chronic pain: Structure-function properties of neural pathways and their organization” offers a quarterly seminar series to enable regular contact and scientific exchange between the Centre’s young researchers and faculties/PIs. These Research Days are organized by Rohini Kuner, ncRNAPain consortium member and Speaker of the...

Frank Birklein from ncRNAPain partner Universitaetsmedizin der JohannesGutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (UMC-Mainz) was honoured to be invited to give the prestigious Sunderland lecture at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Pain Society, which took place from 13 to 16 March 2016 at Perth, Australia. This particular lecture is offered to an international guest speaker each year in...

On 15th April 2016, the University Medical Centre Mainz, Germany, hosted an interim progress meeting within the ncRNAPain project - an event established almost a year ago by the ncRNAPain Consortium to allow close monitoring of the work progress in between the annual Progress Meetings. On basis of the results presented by the team members from pre-clinical and clinical partners, recent...

Several graduate students from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, have recently acquired their degrees based on their work in the frame of the ncRNAPain project and will continue their scientific career. Rivka Zangen has progressed from being a Masters student to a Ph.D. student and is concurrently pursuing her MD degree. Shahar Barbash has received his PhD degree and has begun a...

NeuroCure's Visiting Fellows funding program aims at integrating renowned foreign scientists into the Berlin research landscape to further strengthen the international profile of the universities and research facilities, as well as at fostering collaborative projects. Prof Hermona Soreq of ncRNAPain consortium member The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, became a Visiting Fellow in April...