In July 2016, the first International Pain Summer School took place in Prien am Chiemsee, Germany.
For their work on interaction between GABA and TRPV1, Jan Siemens and his team
Rebecca Seal, recently appointed Professor for Neurobiology at Pittsburgh University, could give fresh insights into the challenges towards creating an independent name in science, negotiating tenure and dealing with potential gender bias in career development.
The German chapter of IASP (Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft) is currently working on its first “research agenda”. To that purpose, the chapter has initiated a series of annual convents (“Wissenschaftstage”) in 2015