The 2025 Pain in Animals Workshop: Advancing Outcome Measure Development and Translational Relevance, will be held at the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) in the Auditorium on the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland from September 25 – 26, 2025.
The meeting is qualified for 11 hours of AAVSB RACE Approved CE for Veterinarians.
The 2025 Pain in Animals Workshop (PAW) on Sept 25th and 26th (Thursday/Friday) is a 2-day workshop that will focus on exploring and discussing these topics:
- Current Perspectives: Non-rodent models
- Artificial Intelligence applied to the measurement of pain
- Evolutionary clues to pain mechanisms and novel measures
- Breed, Race and Gender differences in pain sensitivity (perceptions and reality)
View an overview of the aims and the agenda here.
The meeting, funded through a grant from the Mayday Fund: https://www.maydayfund.org/, with additional support from NC State Comparative Pain Research and Education Centre will bring together researchers, clinicians/practitioners in human and veterinary medicine, industry, and the regulatory authorities.
Call for Posters: We are accepting submissions for posters: studies describing work focusing on the measurement or assessment of pain in animals. Abstracts describing studies in any species will be considered; abstracts can report therapeutic studies (emphasizing description and analysis of outcome measures), animal models, analytical methodology.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: August 1, 2025 at 11pm Eastern US time to ceregistration@ncsu.edu. Abstracts will be reviewed for appropriate content, and individuals promptly notified of acceptance.
***There is no fee to register for the event (thanks to The Mayday Fund), but aWendees are required to register. Delegate numbers are limited.
Featured Image: Stephanie Shiers, Price Lab, UTDallas