Thursday, 4 September 2025
| Parallel Workshop Sessions |
| 08:30-10:30 | QST Training Workshop | Hands-on Workshop | TBA |
| 09:00-10:30 | Racialised inequity, burden, and stigma: recognising barriers to participation and recruitment of inclusive and diverse communities in neuropathic pain research | TBA |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sensory neuron cartography with single cell transcriptomics, proteomics and electrophysiology | Sampurna Chakrabarti (Germany) Esther Eberhardt (Germany) Patrick Ernfors (Sweden) Shamsuddin Bhuiyan (USA) |
| 09:00-10:30 | New perspectives on the Anterolateral System | Andrew Bell (UK) Annemarie Dedek Andrew Marshall |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Coffee Break with Industry Exhibits and Poster Session |
| Parallel Workshop Sessions |
| 10:45-12:15 | From evidence to practice: international guidelines for neuropathic pain treatment, local adaptations and insights | Nadia Soliman (UK) Peter Kamerman (South Africa) Harry Hebert (UK) Margarita Calvo (Chile) |
| 10:45-12:15 | Neuromodulation in neuropathic pain: how molecular mechanisms improved treatment applications | Camila Dale (Brazil) |
| 10:45-12:15 | Multimodal/multiscale approaches to probe pain pathways: from single cell optogenetics to large scale network dynamics to decode neuropathic pain etiology | Sophie Pezet (France) |
| 10:45-12:15 | Bugs in and out of the gut: Understanding the role of the microbiota in chronic, non-visceral pain | Emerson Krock (Canada) Katelyn Sadler (USA) Nader Ghasemlou (Canada) |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunchtime Symposium Session |
| Plenary Session |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Ed Charlton Plenary including Welcome Remarks | Nanna Finnerup (Denmark) |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Coffee Break with Industry Exhibits and Poster Session |
| Plenary Session |
| 16:00-17:30 | Trainee Data Blitzes in Plenary Lecture Theatre | TBA |
Friday, 5 September 2025
| Plenary Session |
| 08:45-09:15 | Plenary Lecture | Brian S. Kim (United States of America) |
| 09:15-09:45 | Plenary Lecture | Yvonne C. Lee (United States of America) |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Coffee Break with Industry Exhibits and Poster Session |
| Parallel Workshop Sessions |
| 10:45-12:15 | Machine Learning Training Workshop | Hands-on Workshop | TBA |
| 10:45-12:15 | Multidisciplinary framework for understanding pain mechanisms in diabetic neuropathy through emerging technologies | TBA |
| 10:45-12:15 | Sensory neuron subtype specific stimulation protocols from patch-seq to patients | TBA |
| 10:45-12:15 | Central pain mechanisms and emerging therapies – physician, scientist, and patient perspectives | Giulia Liberati (Belgium) Prasad Shirvalkar (USA) Jan Rosner (Denmark) Erika Lozano (Switzerland) |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunchtime Symposium Session |
| Plenary Session |
| 14:00-14:30 | Plenary Lecture | Tony Pickering (United Kingdom) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Plenary Lecture | Koichi Hosomi (Japan) |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Coffee Break with Industry Exhibits and Poster Session |
| Parallel Workshop Sessions |
| 16:00-17:00 | Future of research into neuromodulation for neuropathic pain | Sam Eldabe (UK) |
| 16:00-17:00 | Voices in pain: empowering patient involvement and engagement to inform and enhance assessment of Chemotherapy-Induced Painful Neuropathy (CIPN) | TBA |
| 16:00-17:00 | Endometriosis-related neuropathic pain – what do we know and what can we learn? | Lydia Coxon (UK) |
| 16:00-17:00 | Gene therapy approaches for development of new analgesics | Sulayman Dib-Hajj (USA) Marie-Eve Paquet (Canada) Jimena Perez-Sanchez (UK) David Bennet (UK) |
Saturday, 6 September 2025
| Plenary Debate |
| 08:45-09:45 | Plenary debate with Professor Elon Eisenberg and Professor Andrew Rice |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Coffee Break with Industry Exhibits and Poster Session |
| Parallel Workshop Sessions |
| 10:15-12:15 | Microneurography Training Workshop | Hands-on Workshop | TBA |
| 10:45-12:15 | Neuropathic pain and itch in pathological scars | TBA |
| 10:45-12:15 | Macrophages: How important are they, and is targeting them a realistic approach for treating neuropathic pain? | Greg Weir (UK) Thiago Cunha (Brazil) Christoph Erbacher (Germany) |
| 10:45-12:15 | The fat is on fire: lipid mechanisms in neuropathic pain | TBA |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunchtime Symposium Session |
| Plenary Session |
| 14:00-14:30 | Plenary Lecture | Elena Enax-Krumova (Germany) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Plenary Lecture | Annina Schmid (United Kingdom) |
| 15:00-15:15 | Closing remarks with Data Blitz & Poster Awards |
| Coffee Break visit of industry exhibition and poster area |
| Parallel Workshop Sessions |
| 15:30-17:00 | Advances in measuring neuropathic pain in children and adolescents | Giulia Mesaroli (Canada) |
| 15:30-17:00 | Advances in clinical, genetic, and cellular research on channelopathy-related sensory dysfunction, pain, and itch | Grazia Devigili (Italy) Karin Faber (The Netherlands) Margherita Marchi (Italy) Xavier Gasull (Spain) |
| 15:30-17:00 | Biomarker signatures in neuropathic pain | Asta Arendt-Tranholm (USA) Roy Freeman (USA) Georgene Hergenroeder (USA) Ram Arudchandran (USA) |
| 15:30-17:00 | The transcriptional signature of neuropathic pain in the skin – from biopsy to translational research | David Bennet (UK) |
| End of the 9th International Congress on Neuropathic Pain |