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Dr Keith Carne

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Department of Pure Maths and Mathematical Statistics and First Bursar, King's College Cambridge

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Professor Maciej Dunajski

Mathematical Secretary


Professor of Mathematical Physics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Clare College, University of Cambridge

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Dr James Fraser

Biological Secretary


Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

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Professor Joan Lasenby

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Professor of Image and Signal Processing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

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Beverley Larner

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Sara Lees

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Janet Moore

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Wendy Cattell

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Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?

Professor Ewan St. John Smith - A V Hill Lecture

  • 18:00 - 19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre Michaelmas Term

The sensation of pain is one which nearly everyone is familiar with, usually being considered an unpleasant experience. Wouldn’t a life without pain be better? Drawing on human genetics and the wider animal kingdom, we shall see that there are in fact benefits to pain, or rather nociception, the neural process encoding noxious stimuli. Pain is not however static. For example, following an accident, the injured part of the body becomes more sensitive, a phenomenon that usually resolves as the injury heals. Understanding the molecular processes by which pain functions and how the sensitivity in the system changes under different conditions is important for the development of novel therapeutics to treat the chronic pain, such as that associated with osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, endometriosis, and a wealth of other conditions. Looking to potential new therapeutic avenues, we will discuss what can be learned from studying human genetics and extremophile organisms, such as the naked mole-rat, as well what the future holds regard gene- and cell-based therapy.

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Signals from the beginning of the universe

Professor Jo Dunkley OBE

  • 18:00 - 19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre Michaelmas Term

Signals from the beginning of the universe

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