President's Lecture 2023

The British Pharmacological Society's President's Lecture will be taking place in person at the Royal College of Pathologists, 6 Alie St, London E1 8QT.

The British Pharmacological Society's President's Lecture 2023 will be taking place in person at Royal College of Pathologists, 6 Alie St, London E1 8QT.

Attendance is open to all members of the Society. In-person registration and networking takes place from 15:20pm (GMT), with a Lecture by Professor Ralf Baron following on at 16:00pm

Registration for the President's Lecture is now open.

Programme

Session	Length	Time
Registration and networking	40 minutes	15.20-16.00
Welcome by Professor Clive Page followed by Professor Baron’s lecture on Stratifying neuropathic pain patients in pharmacological trials: the way forward	1 hour	16.00-17.00
Drinks reception and networking	2 hours	17.00-19.00

The President's Lecture will follow on from the 2023 AGM. Registration for the AGM is now open.

Professor Ralf Baron

Talk title: Stratifying neuropathic pain patients in pharmacological trials: the way forward

Biography:
Ralf Baron Professor Dr med FFPMCAI is Head of the Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy at the Department of Neurology, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel, in Germany. From 1999-2004, he served as General Secretary of the German Interdisciplinary Pain Society (DIVS), from 2005-2016 he served as a Management Committee Member of the Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NeuPSIG) of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and from 2008-2010 as a board member of the Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft. He has been a Councilor of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) from 2010-2016.

His main research interest is the pathophysiology and therapy of neuropathic pain states. He has intensive scientific collaborations with several researchers worldwide, e.g., Professor HL Fields, San Francisco, USA, and Professor TS Jensen, Aarhus, Denmark.

Professor Baron is associate editor and reviewer for many scientific journals. He has been the recipient of the German Pain Award, the Heinrich-Pette-Award of the German Neurological Society and the Sertürner-Award. In 1998 he was awarded a Feodor Lynen fellowship by the German Humboldt Foundation and was visiting professor at the Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco.

Professor Baron has authored more than 400 publications with his outstanding and motivated research team, and has lectured at numerous conferences and symposia worldwide.

From

05 December 2023

Time

15:20 to 19:00

Venue

Royal College of Pathologists 6 Alie Street London E1 8QT