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• Discuss key issues in pain research, including promising ongoing research, unanswered questions, emerging concepts
• Emphasize translational research as the key to understanding mechanisms of susceptibility to chronic pain, developing preventative approaches and novel treatment strategies
• Explore the latest findings of genetic and genomic mediation of nociception from various models, emphasizing the conservation of pain-related genes, their functions and their advantages
• Discuss the role of gene polymorphisms in normal and pathological modulation of pain in models, humans, and as future drug targets
• Explore the latest findings from human genome-wide investigation of genomic variability and gene expression on pain and nociception
• Review and discuss “gold standard” tools for comprehensive pain phenotyping in humans
• Review and discuss current and future genetic and genomic techniques to study genetic contribution to human pain
• Summarize the progress of cutting-edge clinical trials and those steps required to translate present research findings to clinical practice
• Create a forum for the exchange of ideas on the impact of modern genetics on pain research
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