PRF Spotlight (Episode 2)- Voices Shaping Pain with Dr. Steve Waxman
Spotlight episode is Part 2 of Sodium Channels and the Making of a Field featuring Dr. Stephen Waxman Bridget Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology at Yale University. Dr. Waxman trained with J.Z. Young and Patrick Wall at University College London. He founded Yale's Neuroscience & Regeneration Research Center and has been its director since 1988. Prior to Yale, he held faculty positions at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
Dr. Waxman has been a pioneer in unraveling the roles of sodium channels in pain signaling, as his early papers defined the ion channel architecture of nerve fibers, and demonstrated its importance for axonal conduction. Ultimately, his work has led to the development of new therapies that restore function after nervous system injury. He is now pinpointing "pain resilience" genes, and new non-addictive pain medications, based largely on his work, are in or headed toward clinical trials, and the first has achieved FDA approval. He has served on multiple editorial boards, led an international team that identified ion channel mutations as causes of pain in peripheral neuropathy, received multiple honors, and trained many lead researchers throughout the world.
The PRF Spotlight Episode 2 was produce and moderated by Drs. Isaac Gomes-Aragao DDS, MSC, PhD and Beatriz Lima Adjafre, PhD
Music by Kevin Seal of Seal Party
10 Feb 2026
PRF Spotlight (Episode 1)- Voices Shaping Pain with Dr. Michael Gold
The first interview in the PRF Spotlight Series: Voices Shaping Pain Science features Dr. Michael Gold, PhD delving deep in to discussion of the history and future of sodium channels.
From the identification of sodium channels as drivers of nociceptor excitability to the emergence of NaVs as therapeutic targets, this conversation bridges the history of pain research with the future of mechanism-based analgesia.
Part 1 of our interviews on Sodium Channels and the Making of a Field.
Michael Gold, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Francisco Isaac Gomes-Aragão, DDS, MSC, PhD
University of São Paulo, BR
Beatriz Lima Adjafre, PhD
University of São Paulo, Br
Music by Seal Party.
2 May 2025
Engaging Patient Partners as “Storytellers”: A Conversation with Alice Wagenaar-Tison
During the 2024 North American Pain School (NAPS), five pain researchers participated in the PRF-NAPS 2024 Correspondents Program. In this episode of the IASP-PRF Podcast, PRF correspondent Rima El-Sayed spoke with scientist and patient partner Alice Wagenaar-Tison, PhD candidate at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. During their wide-ranging conversation, Wagenaar detailed her experience with chronic pain, gave advice to any chronic pain patients interested in becoming a patient partner, and how you do not need to be a scientist to help design studies with patients in mind.
Podcast participants include:
Alice Wagenaar-Tison, University of Québec at Trois-Rivières, Canada
Rima El-Sayed, University of Toronto, Canada
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