Pain Therapeutics

This year's Pain Therapeutics event will be a great platform to explore new discoveries in the field. Speakers will share case studies and attendees will have the opportunity to explore new ways to overcome challenges in the development and administration of pain therapeutics. The programme will reflect and hopefully exceed the high standard set by last year's conference.

Why should you attend this event?

• Explore the use of TRP Channels as therapeutic tagets
• Understand how to apply pre-clinical outcome measures and manage human experimental trials in pain research
• Hear about the latest advances In translational strategies for chronic neuropathic pain
• Learn how Pfizer targets Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels for pain therapy

Hear keynote addresses from:

Dr John B. Davis, Senior Scientist, Pain and Neuroexcitability Disorders DPU, GlaxoSmithKline Dr Aldemar Degroot, Senior Scientist, Exploratory Development Department, Astellas

Our expert speaker line-up also includes:

Dr Praveen Anand, Professor of Clinical Neurology, Imperial College London
Dr Keith Bley, Senior Vice President, Nonclinical R&D, NeurogesX Inc
Dr Steve England, Associate Research Fellow, Discovery Biology, Pfizer
Dr Paul Passier, Senior Scientist, Exploratory Development Department, Astellas
Dr Neelima Khairatkar-Joshi, Vice President, Biological Research, Glenmark Research Centre
Dr Odd-Geir Berge, Senior Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Dr Daniel Ursu, Senior Scientist, Eli Lilly 
Prof. Stuart Bevan, Professor of Pharmacology, King’s College London

Who should attend?

VPs, Managers, Heads, Directors and Associates from the areas of:

Pain research Neuroscience drug discovery Pain management Senior Therapeutics and Pain Management Leaders Clinical development-research Business development-licensing Drug delivery Alliance management  Academic institutions Consultancies Pain management devices Investment banks and venture capitalist firms

Venue details

COPTHORNE TARA HOTEL

. Scarsdale Place Kensington London W8 5SR Phone (44) 20 7937 7211,  Fax (44) 20 7937 7100, www.millenniumhotels.com

In a corner of fashionable Kensington you will find the Copthorne Tara. Within easy reach of the shops and restaurants of Kensington High Street, Knightsbridge, and Notting Hill. The hotel is also close to the beautiful tree lined lanes and avenues of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, the Royal Albert Hall, the theatres of the west end and the world famous museums on the Cromwell Road

• From Heathrow Airport: 30 mins by car; Heathrow Airport to Paddington Station 20 mins by Heathrow Express
• Gatwick Airport to Victoria Station 30 mins by Gatwick Express Train;
• Stansted Airport to Liverpool Station 50 mins by Stansted Express Train;
• Luton Airport to Victoria Station 90 mins by coach.

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