George Sideris-Lampretsas (ESR1)  and Marzia Malcangio have published a literature review in Science Direct on Brain behavior and Immunity entitled “Microglial heterogeneity in chronic pain“

European Pain School

14th to 19th June 2021

ESR2 Xhoana Lama took part in the Parkinson’s UK Virtual lab tour and talks with Professor Susan Duty’s Lab Team: “Making sense of the science” on the 13th May 2021. Xhoana presented ‘Understanding neuroinflammation in pain in Parkinson’s‘

The Project Repository Journal (PRj) is now online

The latest TOBeATPAIN article  written by Marzia Malcangio can be found on page 72 of this ninth edition.

Zerina Kurtovic (ESR5) participates in a 3-MT competition

One of the aims of the 3-MT competition is to challenge PhD students to present their research to a non-scientific audience in 3 minutes. The idea is to explain one’s project in an understandable manner without dumbing it down. BH 3-MT is the first time a competition of this type was organized in Bosnia and Herzegovina and it was truly a pleasure to try to disseminate my research to people in my home country. It was a particularly joyful experience because I contributed to putting science on the agenda of public discussion. I feel really honored to have won 1st Prize in the Public Voting part of the competition with more than 4K likes on YouTube and 15K views. You can watch my video on the following link:

‘Exploring novel macrophage-associated mechanisms in autoantibody-induced pain’

Silvia Fanton (ESR3) is the first-author of a TOBeATPAIN paper in PAIN and now also available on PubMed:

The translocator protein gene is associated with endogenous pain modulation and the balance between glutamate and GABA in fibromyalgia and healthy subjects: a multimodal neuroimaging study

Presentations by TOBeATPAIN Research Fellows

Jeiny Luna-Choconta  ESR6

Microglia plasticity in a mouse model of Fabry disease exploring the role of macrophages and microglial cells during the progression of FD in the dorsal root ganglion, the spinal cord and brain in a murine transgenic model of FD.

Patricia García Fernández ESR9

Expression Analysis of a Pro-Inflammatory Pathway in Neuropathic Pain

This studies the hypothesis that the immune system may be involved in the development of pain in patients with neuropathies

Fátima Gimeno-Ferrer ESR8

Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) Influences Cortical Neuronal Excitability Dose-Dependently in Rodents

The TOBeATPAIN Winter School took place on the 27th, 28th and 29th January 2021.  This was a virtual event hosted by Prof. Michaela Kress at the Medizinische Universitat Innsbruck.

Topics covered included Neurodegenerative diseases, Rheumatic diseases and Peripheral neuropathies.  

Guest speakers included 

Prof. John Hardy, Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease, University College London

Prof. Marco Prinz, Institute of Neuroopathologie, University Medical Centre, Frieburg

Prof. Richard M. Ransohoff MD Third Rock Ventures, Boston