Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, Saint Louis University

Tomorrow is the day - We hope to see you there! 4th Annual Research Symposium.

The 2025 St. Louis Translational Pain Research Forum Brought Together Top Pain Scientists and Trainees from Across the Midwest

The 2025 St. Louis Translational Pain Research Forum, held September 26–27, 2025, was a resounding success, featuring 2 plenary speakers, 13 invited talks, 71 poster presentations, and over 200 participants from the Midwest and beyond. Speakers represented institutions including Saint Louis University, Washington University, University of Kansas Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, University of Pittsburgh, Medical College of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and MD Anderson.

Founded in 2023 by Dr. Daniela Salvemini (Department of Pharmacology and Physiology), the Forum is a partnership between the Institute of Translational Neuroscience at Saint Louis University, the Washington University Pain Center and the Center for Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University.

With a strong emphasis on trainee engagement, mentorship, and career development, the event is helping shape the next generation of pain researchers while fostering cross-institutional collaborations across the Midwest and beyond

We are happy to announce that the Institute for Translational Neuroscience 4th Annual Research Symposium, (Neuroday) will take place in person on Thursday, November 6th, 2025. Our keynote speaker is Christine Wu Nordahl, PhD, she is a professor and neuroscientist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC Davis MIND Institute. She directs the UC Davis MIND Institute’s Autism Phenome Project, a longitudinal interdisciplinary study aimed at identifying clinically meaningful subtypes of autism. In addition to the keynote address, there will be talks by several prominent Saint Louis-based researchers, a poster session and reception. Registration is OPEN and REQUIRED!

Aubin Moutal (Pharm/Phys), with first authors Laurent Martin, Harrison Stratton, and colleagues at SLU, University of Arizona, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, and University of Florida, has published "Anti-CV2/CRMP5 autoantibodies as drivers of sensory neuron excitability and pain in rats" in Nature Communications.

Anti-CV2/CRMP5 autoantibodies as drivers of sensory neuron excitability and pain in rats - Nature Communications Lung and thymoma cancer patients often suffer from autoimmunity and related painful neuropathies. Here the authors show that patient-derived anti-CRMP5 autoantibody binds to rat dorsal root ganglia to cause pain, that immunizing rats with CRMP5 recapitulates these phenotypes, and that depleting rat....

Join the ITN for their Monthly Meeting, 9/12!

LAST CALL: For the 2025 Neuroday event this year, we are holding a tee shirt competition for the TRAINEES-

Very simple instructions-
1) Design an original image that represents Neuroscience to you
2) Keep the image size no bigger than 10x10 inches and it has to be vectored artwork, (It will go on the front of the shirt with our ITN logo)
***These will be judged by a secret committee and the winner will be notified
***If you are the winner, it will be printed on a tee shirt and available for the first 50 people that register for the event!

*****DEADLINE: Friday, September 12 by 12pm*****

September 26-27: St. Louis Translational Pain Research Forum:
Have you registered for our upcoming event? Registration ends on 9/5! This deadline also goes for the Poster submissions and we only have 40 spots available ---sign up now! Registration is REQUIRED and you have to also submit your poster submission as well to present.

On May 19 the department toasted and wished a fond farewell to Drs. John Chrivia, Mark Kneupfer and Gina Yosten.

PPY received the NOA (5T32GM141602-04) for the T32 grant!
The trainees for the 2025-2026 year will be:
Hanna Bradley, (Arnatt Lab)
Isaac Readnour, (Walker Lab)
Andy Rocca, (Navia Palaez lab)
Rebecca Sheetz, (Garg Lab)
Erin Vest, (Francois-Moutal Lab)

For the 2025 Neuroday event this year, we are holding a tee shirt competition for the TRAINEES-

Very simple instructions-
1) Design an original image that represents Neuroscience to you
2) Keep the image size no bigger than 10x10 inches and it has to be vectored artwork, (It will go on the front of the shirt with our ITN logo)
***These will be judged by a secret committee and the winner will be notified
***If you are the winner, it will be printed on a tee shirt and available for the first 50 people that register for the event!

*****DEADLINE: Friday, September 12 by 12pm*****

STL Translational Pain Research Forum returns in September- Deadline to register is September 5th! Learn more & register at https://stl-tprf2023.my.canva.site/stl-tprf2025