Objective
We will establish an international team of leading researchers and clinicians (EuroPain) to undertake multidisciplinary translational research which will: 1) increase the understanding of chronic pain mechanisms; 2)facilitate the development of novel analgesic drugs; and 3) improve the treatment of chronic pain patients.
Nineteen researchers drawn from the London Pain Consortium, the Danish Pain Research Centre, the German Pain Network and a Spanish research-intensive SME centre will form a ‘meta’ consortium with complementary expertise. The LPC is mainly laboratory based with a spectrum of skills from molecular biology and bioinformatics through integrated research in animal models to human physiological research, including imaging.The German and Danish groups have large databases on neuropathic and postsurgical pain, respectively, while the Spanish centre offers expertise in human microneurography. We will undertake a series of six interlinked and mutually supportive programs of experimental research, underpinned and supported by a coordinated training and bioinformatics facility. These programs will form a series of workpackages each delivered through collaboration of network laboratories to bring together multiple techniques and considerable expertise to each area. In addition, there will be considerable synergies between the programs. The programs, which fully address the Call, will focus on: Neurobiological mechanisms of chronic pain; Improving animal models of pain; Translational pain models in humans; Mechanisms and assessment of pain in patients; Risk factors for chronic pain.
Field of science
- /natural sciences/biological sciences/molecular biology
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
IMI-JU-01-2008
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Funding Scheme
JTI-CP-IMI - Joint Technology Initiatives - Collaborative Project (IMI)Coordinator
2500 Valby
Denmark
Participants (25)
WC2R 2LS London
WC1E 6BT London
OX1 2JD Oxford
SW7 2AZ London
08028 Barcelona
24118 Kiel
69117 Heidelberg
81675 Muenchen
44789 Bochum
60323 Frankfurt Am Main
8200 Aarhus
3400 Hillerod
5230 Odense M
55218 Ingelheim
CT13 9NJ Sandwich
RG24 9NL Basingstoke
Participation ended
TW89GS Brentford
08038 Barcelona
1070 Bruxelles
91380 Chilly Mazarin
151 85 Sodertaelje
65205 Wiesbaden
2333 BE Leiden
52078 Aachen
EC1M 7AD London