PRF Spotlight Interview (Ep 2) Voices Shaping Pain Science: Sodium Channels and the Making of a Field Part 2 Featuring Dr. Stephen Waxman

PRF Spotlight Ep 2 of Sodium Channels and the Making of a Field features 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 is 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 importancefor 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

Francisco Isaac  Gomes-Aragão, DDS, MSC, PhD

University of São Paulo, BR

Beatriz Lima Adjafre, PhD

University of São Paulo, Br

Special thanks to Seal Party for the music.