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The Pain Beat

IASP Pain Research Forum

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Frequency: 1 episode/102d. Total Eps: 22

The Pain Beat brings together the world’s leading pain investigators in order to spark dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research.

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Pain Beat (Episode 20): Human tissue research addresses a longstanding void in pain research

Episode 20

Monday, October 6, 2025 • Duration 58:38

Manager’s note: The Pain Beat, launched and supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, brings together the world’s leading pain investigators with the purpose of sparking dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. Guided by Rebecca Seal, scientific director of The Pain Beat and Editor-in-Chief of Pain Research Forum, the podcasts feature open and spirited discussions about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward. For this episode, Adam Dourson and Lite Yang served as both creators and producers.

Lite Yang moderates an important discussion with leaders in the pain field, which provides insights into current work to use human donor tissues to guide basic research findings to increase the success of clinical outcomes. This is update on Episode 4 recorded in 2021, which featured another group of leading pain researchers.

Podcast participants include:

Robert Gereau, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, US
Wenqin Luo, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, US
Theodore Price, PhD, UT Dallas, US
William Renthal, MD, PhD, Harvard University, US
Lite Yang, Washington University in Saint Louis, US

PRF thanks Kevin Seal for creating the music.

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The Pain Beat (Episode 19): Migraine: More Than Just a Headache

Episode 19

Saturday, July 12, 2025 • Duration 37:00

Manager’s note: Welcome to the 19th episode of The Pain Beat! Launched and supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, The Pain Beat brings together the world’s leading pain investigators with the purpose of sparking dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. Guided by Rebecca Seal, scientific director of The Pain Beat and Editor-in-Chief of Pain Research Forum, the podcasts feature open and spirited discussions about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward. On this episode of The Pain Beat, Juliet Mwirigi moderates an in person discussion about migraine with a diverse panel of preclinical and clinical experts at the USASP meeting in Chicago. Where are we in understanding and treating migraine? What successes have we had and what challenges do we still face? Podcast participants include: Andrew Russo, PhD, University of Iowa, US Gregory Dussor, PhD, UT Dallas, US Hadas Nahman-Averbuch PhD, University of Washington in Saint Louis, US Levi Sowers, PhD, University of Iowa, US Yohannes Woldeamanuel, MD, Mayo Clinic, US Juliet Mwirigi, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, US PRF thanks Adam Dourson and Lite Yang for producing the podcast and Kevin Seal for creating the music.

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The Pain Beat (Episode 18) –The Immune System and Pain

Season 1 · Episode 18

Monday, April 14, 2025 • Duration 42:36

On this episode of The Pain Beat, Adam Dourson moderates a discussion about the role of the immune system in pain – what we know currently and ideas about how the immune system can be a target for new strategies to treat chronic pain. Podcast participants include: Geffroy Laumet, PhD, Michigan State University, US Luda Diachenko, PhD, McGill University, CA Thiago Cunha, PhD, University of Sao Paolo, BR Temugin Berta, PhD, University of Cincinnati, US Adam Dourson, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, US PRF thanks Lite Yang and Adam Dourson for producing the podcast and Kevin Seal for creating the music.

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Final Pain Beat Episode 17 Visceral pain Stereo Music

Season 1 · Episode 17

Friday, November 22, 2024 • Duration 38:29

On this episode of The Pain Beat, Ewan St John Smith hosted fellow scientists and clinicians with expertise in visceral pain, including Federica La Russa - a scientist who also brought the patient perspective. The participants belong to the ADVANTAGE Consortium led by Geoff Woods, University of Cambridge, UK. The discussion covered psychological and clinical perspectives on the experience of visceral pain and treatment as well as the in latest preclinical research and how visceral pain studies differ from other types of pain.

Podcast participants include:

Ewan St. John Smith, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
Franziska Denk, PhD, University College London, UK
Federica La Russa, PhD, Freelance Science Writer
Andrew Horne, University of Edinburgh, UK
Amanda Williams, PhD, University College London, UK

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The Pain Beat (Episode 16) – A2CPS: Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures

Season 1 · Episode 16

Friday, September 1, 2023 • Duration 31:59

This 16th episode of The Pain Beat highlights the work of a vibrant consortium of pain researchers working on a project known as Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS). A2CPS is focused on the identification of biomarkers to predict which patients will transition from acute to chronic pain, and which patients living with chronic pain can improve their quality of life with management (see related PRF news story). The Pain Beat invited several Primary Investigators from A2CPS to talk about the work of the consortium, and how listeners of The Pain Beat can get involved themselves!

Podcast participants include:

Kathleen Sluka, PT, PhD, FAPTA, A2CPS Principal Investigator; University of Iowa, USA
John Burns, PhD, A2CPS Principal Investigator; Rush University Medical Center, Illinois, USA
Chad Brummett, MD, A2CPS Principal Investigator; University of Michigan, USA
Michael Olivier, PhD, A2CPS Principal Investigator; Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA.
Stephani Sutherland, PhD, A2CPS Communications Director; Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA (moderator)

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The Pain Beat (Episode 15) – Nobel Prize: Somatosensation and Stories

Season 1 · Episode 15

Thursday, November 10, 2022 • Duration 44:32

This 15th episode of The Pain Beat is the third and final of a three-part series discussing the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – awarded to David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, USA and Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research, California, USA – for their work on molecules important for somatosensation (see PRF related interview here, PRF related news story here, part one of this series here, and part two of this series here). In this episode, The Pain Beat spoke with a group of collaborators and former mentees to discuss what the discoveries mean for the somatosensory field, as well as stories and insights about what it was like working with Drs. Julius and Patapoutian during that time.

Podcast participants include:

Allan Basbaum, PhD, FRS, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Diana Bautista, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Alexander Chesler, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA
Ellen Lumpkin, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Tayler Sheahan, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA (Host)

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The Pain Beat (Episode 14) – Nobel Prize: A Conversation with Ardem Patapoutian and Bertrand Coste

Season 1 · Episode 14

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 • Duration 27:18

This 14th episode of The Pain Beat is the second of a three-part series discussing the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – awarded to David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, USA and Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research, California, USA – for their work on molecules important for somatosensation (see PRF related interview here, PRF related news story here, and part one of this series here). In this episode, The Pain Beat spoke with Nobel Prize laureate Ardem Patapoutian and Bertrand Coste, Aix-Marseille University, France, to discuss their discovery of mechanically sensitive ion channels – Piezo1 and Piezo2.

Podcast participants include:

Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, Scripps Research, California, USA
Bertrand Coste, PhD, Aix-Marseille University, France
Tayler Sheahan, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA (Host)

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The Pain Beat (Episode 13) – Nobel Prize: A Conversation with David Julius and Michael Caterina

Season 1 · Episode 13

Friday, August 19, 2022 • Duration 36:48

This 13th episode of The Pain Beat is the first of a three-part series discussing the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – awarded to David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, USA and Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research, California, USA – for their work on molecules important for somatosensation (see PRF related interview here, and PRF related news story here). In this episode, The Pain Beat spoke with Nobel Prize laureate David Julius and Michael Caterina, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland, USA, to discuss their discovery of TRPV1. The conversation provides insight regarding their thought processes and problem solving, the enduring challenges of scientific discoveries, and the fun they had along the way.

Podcast participants include:

David Julius, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Michael Caterina, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Maryland, USA
Tayler Sheahan, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA (Host)

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The Pain Beat (Episode 12) - A Tribute to Stephen McMahon

Season 1 · Episode 12

Friday, May 27, 2022 • Duration 48:32

The twelfth episode of The Pain Beat is dedicated to Stephen McMahon, PhD, FMedSci (1954-2021). Stephen, affectionately known as “Mac,” was a world class pain researcher, lecturer, and inspiration to many. Our podcast guests pay homage to “Mac” with stories that illustrate his influence on the pain research field, and those in it. He will be remembered not only for his seminal contributions to our understanding of pain, but also for his generous and enthusiastic personal spirit which has left an indelible mark.

Podcast participants include:

David Bennett, MB, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Gary Lewin, PhD, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Irene Tracey, DPhil, University of Oxford, UK
Franziska Denk, DPhil, King’s College London, UK (Host)

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The Pain Beat (Episode 11) - Evolution of Nociceptors

Season 1 · Episode 11

Thursday, April 14, 2022 • Duration 55:55

For its eleventh episode, The Pain Beat brought together experts to discuss the biological evolution of nociceptors, their subtypes, and plasticity as part of the Gulf Coast Consortium’s #Pain2021 Webinar Series. These experts study nociceptors across a variety of animal models, including Drosophila, C. elegans, cephalopods, rodents, and humans. The discussion focused on how an evolutionary perspective brings novel insights into the role and function of nociceptors and if, why, and how organisms experience pain.

Podcast participants include:

Greg Neely, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia
Edgar T. Walters, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Robyn Crook, PhD, San Francisco State University, California, USA
Ewan St. John Smith, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
Ted Price, PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, USA (Moderator)
Peter Grace, PhD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA (Host)

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