News & Events

Hermona Soreq of ncRNAPain consortium member The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, was invited to give a keynote speech entitled “From Mice to Men: MicroRNA regulators of stress-induced cholinergic signalling” at the 10th MicroRNAs & NonCoding RNAs Europe 2015 Meeting. Taking place from 2nd to 3rd November 2016 at Peterhouse, the oldest College of the University of Cambridge, this...

The largest European Pain Congress, the 9th Congress of the European Pain Federation, took place in Vienna on 2-5 September 2015. Over 4.000 pain specialists gathered to discuss current trends and future developments in pain medicine. The event provided an excellent platform for the ncRNAPain coordinator, Michaela Kress, Head of Department of Physiology at Medical University Innsbruck to present...

Kiran Kumar Bali of ncRNAPain consortium member Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg was invited to give a talk on “Non-coding RNAs mediating and regulating central neuropathy-induced sensory and emotional dysfunction“ at the annual meeting of the non-coding RNA research consortium funded by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany. The meeting took place on 12th January 2016 in Stuttgart.

Almost exactly two years into the project, the ncRNAPain partners gathered on November 5-6, 2015 for their annual progress meeting. It was hosted by partner University of Bordeaux, directly opposite the impressive cathedral and next to the old town, a UNESCO world heritage. Coordinator Michaela Kress was very pleased to welcome the international consortium as well as Scientific Advisor Arn van...

EU funded ncRNAPain research is having a major impact on the latest advances in cellular and molecular neuroscience. As a consequence, researchers from the consortium were invited to present their findings at the ISN 2015 Biennial Meeting, which took place in Cairns, Australia from August 23-27. Michaela Kress, coordinator of the project and Marc Landry, team leader at University of Bordeaux’s...

Dario Kringel and Jörn Lötsch from the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Goethe – University, Frankfurt, Germany and members of the EU funded Gloria project have recently published a communication summarizing different initiatives in pain-related research funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).  Constituting not only a heavy burden for individual patients and...

Michaela Kress, Head of Department of Physiology at Medical University Innsbruck, will represent the ncRNAPain consortium at the 9th congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC taking place on 2-5 September 2015 in Vienna. The coordinator of the EU funded research project was invited to give a plenary lecture on ‘Non-coding RNAs: novel perspectives for clinical applications’. Date: 3...