A2CPS - Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures

02/03/2026

Last month, A2CPS completed recruiting participants for this landmark study. The final number is 2,383 people, making it one of the largest studies of chronic pain ever undertaken!

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11/13/2024

Join us Dec 5 for our next A2CPS Journal Club with Luda Diatchenko - register at PURPOSE now, open to the public!

Please join us for the A2CPS Journal Club on Thursday, December 5th at 9am PT/Noon ET    Luda Diatchenko, MD, PhD from McGill University will be discussing her latest publication in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, "Genome-wide association studies reveal a protective role for B lymphocytes agai...

08/05/2024

This week researchers are in Amsterdam for the World Congress on Pain International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) - so much exciting research being presented, and so many great conversations!

04/16/2024

Lots to learn here in Seattle at the annual meeting of the US Association for the Study of Pain - research ranging from genetics to social systems. The crew is representing!

04/05/2024

We had a great time - and talked lots of exciting science - at our annual in-person meeting last week in Chicago!

03/18/2024

Who’s coming to Seattle for the annual United States Association for the Study of Pain meeting? Be sure to let us know and catch up with A2CPS investigators. Don’t miss talks from John Burns of Rush University and Tor Wager of Dartmouth.

03/11/2024

PURPOSE, the NIH's platform for pain researchers, holds it 2nd Annual Meeting May 3-5

2nd Annual PURPOSE Meeting for Pain Researchers May 3-5, 2024 Overview The NIH and the NIH HEAL Initiative is excited to invite you to the second annual PURPOSE Meeting, which will be an in-person event at the National Harbor in Maryland from May 3-5, 2024. The meeting provides learning experiences,...

01/30/2024

Check out our growing video library on Vimeo, including “journal club” talks from invited researchers about their latest work - like this one from Dr. Kimberly Sibille on whole-person biomarkers of chronic pain.

08/11/2023

Wrap up your summer with an A2CPS - Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures Journal Club, featuring Dr. Prasad Shirvalkar of UCSF. Thursday, Aug 31, at noon ET join us for a discussion of Dr. Shirvalkar's recent publication in Nature Neuroscience. Registration is free! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/A2CPSJournalClub8312023

04/25/2023

This Thursday! Join Dr. Kosek in discussing complex interactions between chronic pain biomarkers. Papers focus on fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis and use many of the methods that investigators are preparing to utilize! Register here: https://t.co/NB8ahsQufJ

https://www.jni-journal.com/article/S0165-5728(20)30056-4/fulltext

https://journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltext/2022/02000/The_translocator_protein_gene_is_associated_with.5.aspx

03/22/2023

Tomorrow! investigator Laura Frey Law presenting the Irma Ruebling Distinguished Lecture at Saint Louis University Program in Physical Therapy: Biomechanics to Pain Mar 23 at 5:30 CT