Science Café – Chronic Pain: Uncovering a Path Towards Better Treatments
As part of Ӱԭ University’s Science Café series, Michael Hildebrand of the Department of Neuroscience will present .
When: Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa
Info: This event is free and open to the public.
Media are invited to attend the event.
Our inability to effectively and safely treat chronic pain is a major public health challenge. One in five Canadians experiences chronic pain, imposing huge personal and societal costs. The failure to develop new treatments may be partly due to the large divide between studies in animal pain models and the jump to testing specific therapeutics on humans.
In this presentation, Hildebrand will discuss “good” versus “bad” pain, how pain medicines work and the need to develop future therapeutics to block the “bad” forms of chronic pain. He will discuss his lab’s ongoing research into how dysfunctional signalling in the spinal cord drives chronic pain in both animal and human tissue models.
A unique collaboration with Ottawa Hospital neurosurgeon Eve Tsai is testing which pathological pain mechanisms are conserved across species – potentially shedding light on new therapeutic approaches to treat pain.
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