Apr 7, 2026
Spotlight episode is Part 2 of Sodium Channels and the Making of a Field featuring Dr. Stephen Waxman Bridget Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology at Yale University. Dr. Waxman trained with J.Z. Young and Patrick Wall at University College London. He founded Yale’s Neuroscience &...
Feb 10, 2026
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...
May 2, 2025
During the 2024 North American Pain School (NAPS), five pain researchers participated in the PRF-NAPS 2024 Correspondents Program. In this episode of the IASP-PRF Podcast, PRF correspondent Rima El-Sayed spoke with scientist and patient partner Alice Wagenaar-Tison, PhD candidate at the Université du Québec...
Apr 30, 2025
Editor’s note: This article is part of PRF’s featured content series “Investigating Virtual Reality for Pain Management: Past, Present, and Future,” which has been made possible thanks to a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund.
Over the past two decades, the technology supporting virtual reality (VR) has...
Apr 14, 2025
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: