🚀 NAPS applications open this week!

The North American Pain School (@napainschool.bsky.social) brings together leading experts in #PainResearch for an immersive #SummerSchool training and networking experience in Québec.

📍 Apply Nov 28–Jan 31

👉 northamericanpainschool.com/registration/

New preprint: Exploring the neuroimmune cellular landscape in the skin of subjects with fibromyalgia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last week at NeuPSIG in Berlin, I shared some new data in skin samples from fibromyalgia patients. Great city🍺, great catch-ups with old friends, and hopefully some exciting steps forward for the pain field!

2 Apr 2025

Galosi et al. find that, in people with painful diabetic polyneuropathy, ongoing burning pain is strikingly associated with an increased expression of epidermal TRPV1 nerve fibers. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4iZRmgH

Altered Sensory and Stress Responses in Atopic Dermatitis: Effects of Acute Stress on Lesional and Non‐Lesional Skin Itch and pain are both mediated by small sensory fibres. Atopic dermatitis (AD) patients usually report stress-induced flares, but the impact of stress on sensory fibres in lesional and non-lesional ...

Fantastic way to start my week! ☀️ The first paper from my PhD has been published, where we show that stress-induced cold hypoesthesia is absent in
sensory nerve fibers from atopic skin lesions. Hope you enjoy it!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What an exciting week: two papers published in
@brain1878.bsky.social and @painthejournal.bsky.social on the findings from our whiplash cohort. Massive thank you Joel Fundaun, Colette Ridehalgh, Andrew Dilley and other co-authors who were instrumental in making this happen. Short summary below.

🚨 Paper Announcement🎉 🥂
Read about our fascinating discoveries around the pain-relieving effect of the JAK inhibitor baricitinib in an arthritis context !
Our pre-clinical study highlights exciting findings and is now available in the prestigious journal ARD: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our web tool for searching for interactors of your favorite cell surface protein, developed by undergrad Pinyu Liao and postdoc postdoc Brendan Floyd @stanford-chemh.bsky.social

cellsurfacemap.org

Macrophages protect against sensory axon loss in peripheral neuropathy - Nature A study in a mouse model of obesity and prediabetes demonstrates that recruitment of macrophages to nerves has a protective role in diet-induced peripheral neuropathy.

#PainResearch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Join us for the next European Pain School!

🗓️ 7–13 June 2025

📍 Certosa di Pontignano, Siena – a stunning setting for cutting-edge learning.

📝 Apply by: 28 February 2025 eps2025.azuleon.org/application

💡 This year’s focus: Cancer Pain Research, featuring topics like:

4th Molecular Biosystems Conference -- 2025 Leading Latin American conference on Eukaryotic Gene Regulation & Functional Genomics.

The lineup for @molbiosystems.bsky.social is READY! Official release in a few days.

Plan to join us!

Molbiosystems.com

Kicking off this account (and the holiday season 🕯️🎄) with a dinner for New International Scholars in Sweden at the Stockholm City Hall. Almost four months after my arrival in Sweden🇸🇪, I can say that life and science at the @molecularpain.bsky.social lab are going great!