The Pain Beat (Episode 14) – Nobel Prize: A Conversation with Ardem Patapoutian and Bertrand Coste
Release Date: 09/14/2022
The Pain Beat (Ep 23): Channelopathies: Insights Spanning from Ephys Rig to Pain Clinic and Back
The Pain Beat
Editor’s note: Welcome to the 23rd episode of The Pain Beat, PRF’s podcast series! The Pain Beat brings together the world’s leading pain investigators in order to spark dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. The Pain Beat podcasts feature open and spirited discussion about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward from here. This episode of the Pain Beat covers ion channel disorders known as channelopathies that underlie painful conditions. The conversation covers from human genetics, structural analyses, electrophysiological...
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The Pain Beat (Ep 22) Modulation of Pain by Sleep and Hunger
The Pain Beat
Editor’s note: Welcome to the 22nd episode of The Pain Beat, PRF’s podcast series! The Pain Beat brings together the world’s leading pain investigators in order to spark dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. The Pain Beat podcasts feature open and spirited discussion about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward from here. On this episode, experts in pain research discuss the modification of pain by homeostatic drives and survival threats. How for example, do hunger and sleep modify the pain experience and how are they...
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PRF Spotlight (Episode 1)- Voices Shaping Pain with Dr. Michael Gold
The Pain Beat
The first interview in the PRF Spotlight Series: Voices Shaping Pain Science features Dr. Michael Gold, PhD delving deep in to discussion of the history and future of sodium channels. From the identification of sodium channels as drivers of nociceptor excitability to the emergence of NaVs as therapeutic targets, this conversation bridges the history of pain research with the future of mechanism-based analgesia. Part 1 of our interviews on Sodium Channels and the Making of a Field. Michael Gold, PhD University of Pittsburgh Francisco Isaac Gomes-Aragão, DDS, MSC, PhD...
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The Pain Beat (Episode 21)-Lens Talk About It: The Intricate World of Eye Pain
The Pain Beat
Manager’s note: The Pain Beat, launched and supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, brings together the world’s leading pain investigators with the purpose of sparking dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. Guided by Lite Yang, Scientific Director and co-producer, and Rebecca Seal, Chair Editorial Board of PRF, the podcasts feature open and spirited discussions about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward. Here we dive into a topic that’s both surprisingly complex and often...
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The Pain Beat (Episode 20)- Human tissue research addresses a longstanding void in pain research
The Pain Beat
Manager’s note: The Pain Beat, launched and supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, brings together the world’s leading pain investigators with the purpose of sparking dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. Guided by Rebecca Seal, scientific director of The Pain Beat and Editor-in-Chief of Pain Research Forum, the podcasts feature open and spirited discussions about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward. For this episode, Adam Dourson and Lite Yang served as both creators and...
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The Pain Beat (Episode 19)-Migraine: More Than Just a Headache
The Pain Beat
Manager’s note: Welcome to the 19th episode of The Pain Beat! Launched and supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, The Pain Beat brings together the world’s leading pain investigators with the purpose of sparking dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. Guided by Rebecca Seal, scientific director of The Pain Beat and Editor-in-Chief of Pain Research Forum, the podcasts feature open and spirited discussions about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward. On this episode of The Pain...
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The Pain Beat (Episode 18) –The Immune System and Pain
The Pain Beat
On this episode of The Pain Beat, Adam Dourson moderates a discussion about the role of the immune system in pain – what we know currently and ideas about how the immune system can be a target for new strategies to treat chronic pain. Podcast participants include: Geffroy Laumet, PhD, Michigan State University, US Luda Diachenko, PhD, McGill University, CA Thiago Cunha, PhD, University of Sao Paolo, BR Temugin Berta, PhD, University of Cincinnati, US Adam Dourson, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, US PRF thanks Lite Yang and Adam Dourson for producing the podcast and Kevin Seal for...
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The Pain Beat (Episode 17)- Visceral Pain Research and Patient Perspectives
The Pain Beat
On this episode of The Pain Beat, Ewan St. John Smith hosted fellow scientists and clinicians with expertise in visceral pain, including Federica La Russa - a scientist who also brought the patient perspective. The participants belong to the led by Geoff Woods, University of Cambridge, UK. The discussion covered psychological and clinical perspectives on the experience of visceral pain and treatment, as well as the latest in preclinical research, including how visceral pain studies differ from other types of pain. Podcast participants include: Ewan St. John Smith, PhD,...
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The Pain Beat (Episode 16) – A2CPS: Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures
The Pain Beat
This 16th episode of The Pain Beat highlights the work of a vibrant consortium of pain researchers working on a project known as Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS). A2CPS is focused on the identification of biomarkers to predict which patients will transition from acute to chronic pain, and which patients living with chronic pain can improve their quality of life with management (). The Pain Beat invited several Primary Investigators from A2CPS to talk about the work of the consortium, and how listeners of The Pain Beat can get involved themselves! Podcast participants include: ...
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The Pain Beat (Episode 15) – Nobel Prize: Somatosensation and Stories
The Pain Beat
This 15th episode of The Pain Beat is the third and final of a three-part series discussing the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – awarded to David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, USA and Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research, California, USA – for their work on molecules important for somatosensation (see PRF related interview , PRF related news story , part one of this series , and part two of this series ). In this episode, The Pain Beat spoke with a group of collaborators and former mentees to discuss what the discoveries mean for the somatosensory field, as...
info_outlineThis 14th episode of The Pain Beat is the second of a three-part series discussing the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – awarded to David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, USA and Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research, California, USA – for their work on molecules important for somatosensation (see PRF related interview here, PRF related news story here, and part one of this series here). In this episode, The Pain Beat spoke with Nobel Prize laureate Ardem Patapoutian and Bertrand Coste, Aix-Marseille University, France, to discuss their discovery of mechanically sensitive ion channels – Piezo1 and Piezo2.
Podcast participants include:
- Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, Scripps Research, California, USA
- Bertrand Coste, PhD, Aix-Marseille University, France
- Tayler Sheahan, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA (Host)