European Commission: FP7
  • Developing new therapies
  • Enhancing individual therapies
  • Improving clinical diagnostics
  • Understanding mechanisms of pain

ncRNAPain Down Under

September 02, 2015

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 Central Mechanisms of Pain Sensitization group and PI in ncRNAPain chaired the ISN scientific session dedicated to Non-coding RNAs: Important Regulators in the Nervous System.

While Marc Landry presented MiR-134-dependent plasticity of nociceptive spinal circuits, Michaela Kress discussed how Non-coding RNAs modulate sensory neuron function and regeneration. The ncRNAPain team further represented by Rohini Kuner who gave a lecture on Non-coding RNA deregulation in pain associated with neuropathy and cancer.

The session as well as the individual talks was very much appreciated by the international audience of the 2015 ISN.