title: Understanding chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain.
abstract: This meeting report highlights the main topics presented at the conference "Chronic Inflammatory and Neuropathic Pain," convened jointly by the New York Academy of Sciences, MedImmune, and Grünenthal GmbH, on June 2-3, 2011, with the goal of providing a conducive environment for lively, informed, and synergistic conversation among participants from academia, industry, clinical practice, and government to explore new frontiers in our understanding and treatment of chronic and neuropathic pain. The program included leading and emerging investigators studying the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neuropathic and chronic pain, and experts in the clinical development of pain therapies. Discussion included novel issues, current challenges, and future directions of basic research in pain and preclinical and clinical development of new therapies for chronic pain.
authors.affiliation: MedImmune, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Jane P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chessell
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Malamut
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perkins
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bačkonja
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Farrar
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Field
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Gereau
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gilron
authors.forename: Stephen B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: McMahon
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Porreca
authors.forename: Bob A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Rappaport
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.forename: Laura K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Richman
authors.forename: Märta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Segerdahl
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Seminowicz
authors.forename: Linda R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Watkins
authors.forename: Stephen G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Waxman
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wiech
authors.forename: Clifford
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Woolf
mesh_terms: D001688:Biological Products / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D035843:Biomedical Research; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products