PAINDIFF

Methodological approaches for best practice study of sex and gender as variables in pain research:

Consensus recommendations and a roadmap for research

Overview of project and primary objectives:

The PAINDIFF project is an interdisciplinary Networking Group funded by EU that brings together a team of 30 international leading research experts, early career researchers and patient advocates from 22 institutions across 8 countries, to discuss experimental design and methodological approaches to studying sex and gender differences in pain research.

The overall aim of the Networking Group will (a) identify current practice, (b) opinions on best practice and (c) develop a set of guidelines for the study of sex and gender differences in chronic pain research.

The findings of the Networking Group will be widely disseminated to ensure chronic pain researchers are fully aware of the methodological framework and recommendations for studying sex and gender differences, and their relative application, in preclinical and clinical settings. 

 

Networking Team

Michelle Roche

Associate Prof in Physiology

University of Galway

Scientific Coordinator

Preclinical subgroup leader

Brian McGuire

Prof of Clinical Psychology

University of Galway

Clinical subgroup leader

David Finn

Prof of Pharmacology
& Therapeutics

University of Galway

Translational subgroup leader

Network Partners: 30 partners, 22 institutions and 8 countries

  • Catherine Healy, University of Galway, Ireland

  • Siobhain O'Mahony, University College Cork, Ireland

  • George Shorten, University College Cork, Ireland

  • Kieran O’Sullivan, University of Limerick, Ireland

  • Brona Fullen, University College Dublin, Ireland

  • Ipek Yalcin, CNRS, Strasbourg, France

  • Herta Flor, Mannheim, Germany

  • Francesco Scarlatti, Mannheim, Germany

  • Rohini Kuner, University of Heidelberg, Germany

  • Miriam Kunz, Augsburg University, Germany

  • Stefan Lautenbacher, University of Bamberg, Germany

  • Edmund Keogh, University of Bath, UK

  • Kevin Vowles, Queens College Belfast, UK

  • Suellen Walker, University College London, UK

  • Simon Beggs, University College London, UK

  • Michael Salter, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

  • Jennifer Stinson, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

  • Karen Davis, Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Canada

  • Jeffery Mogil, McGill University, Canada

  • Yves De Koninck, Laval University, Canada

  • Katelynn Boerner, Canada

  • Ruth Defrin, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

  • Kathleen Sluka, University of Iowa, USA

  • Emeran Mayer, USA

  • Hemakumar Devan, University of Otago, New Zealand

  • Louise Riordan, Chronic Pain Ireland, Ireland

  • John Kenny, Chronic Pain Ireland, Ireland

 

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