IASP will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Even though the anniversary is still a few years away, it already has us thinking about the history of IASP and the evolution of pain research over the past five decades. So, we have begun a new series of podcasts that will cover both of those topics, featuring senior leaders in the field who have made major contributions to pain research and care and/or to IASP.
Our third such podcast features pioneering pain researcher Stephen McMahon, PhD. Dr. McMahon is Sherrington Professor of Physiology at King’s College London, UK, where he leads a research group in clinical neuroscience. He also directs the Wellcome Trust Pain Consortium, an international network of leading pain researchers. He trained under Patrick Wall at University College London before moving to King’s College London in 1985 to run his own lab. His major research interest is pain mechanisms and he has been working to identify and understand pain mediators. More recently he has focused on neuroimmune interactions and the role of genetics and epigenetics in pain.
In this podcast, Dr. McMahon discusses his early days in the pain research field, what it was like to train with Patrick Wall, the gate control theory of pain, central sensitization, and much more.
