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Pain Research Forum (PRF)

Launched in May, 2011, the Pain Research Forum (PRF) is an interactive web community dedicated to finding treatments for untreatable pain conditions. Modeled on the highly successful Alzheimer Research Forum and similar sites for schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease, the PRF aims to build a virtual meeting place for investigators in academia, industry, medicine and other fields who are working to translate basic neurobiology into new treatments for chronic pain.

The ultimate goal of the site is to help researchers to speed the rendering of new knowledge into novel therapies by improving information sharing between labs and the clinic, by fostering new collaborations among researchers, and by raising interest in pain research among a wider community of scientists and clinicians.

The Pain Research Forum is a joint project of the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center and MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease Informatics. The site is supported by two anonymous charitable foundations.

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PRF and IASP

Progress in Pain Genetics: A Meeting of Their Own
PRF co-Executive Editor Pat McCaffrey attended and reported on the 10th IASP Research Symposium, "The Genetics of Pain: Science, Medicine and Drug Development," which took place February 7-9, 2012, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Read her four-part report at PRF.