Research

The HaPpY Project: Welcoming Early Stage Researcher Alba María Diego

Jan 20, 2022

The European Pain Federation EFIC is delighted to announce that Early Stage Researcher Alba María Diego will be joining the team for the next 3 months as part of her PhD training program. This doctoral program is also part of the HaPpY project, of which EFIC is a...

IMI PainCare: Update December 2021

Dec 8, 2021

Update on progress of IMI-PainCare, a public-private partnership supported by the European Union to improve the care of patients with acute or chronic pain. EFIC is one of about 40 partners of this consortium (www.imi-paincare.eu): IMI-PainCare TRiPP (Translational...

International Day of People with Disabilities: 3 December 2021

Dec 3, 2021

International Day of People with Disabilities: 3 December In 1992, the United Nations introduced this International Day of celebration for people living with disabilities to be held on 3 December each year. The theme for this year is “Fighting for rights in the...

IMI Pain Care: Subproject Interviews

Nov 10, 2021

IMI-PainCare is a large multi-stakeholder consortium funded via the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 programme, which receives funding from the European Commission and the pharmaceutical industry. IMI-PainCare aims to develop alignment on patient reported outcomes...

EIT Health Wild Card 2021: project update

Oct 15, 2021

The aim of the EIT-Health Wildcard programme is to bring together scientists, clinicians, engineers, entrepreneurs, and business experts to develop new innovations to tackle healthcare challenges. Multidisciplinary project teams are formed and ideas are developed....

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021

Oct 6, 2021

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Professors David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian from the United States for their independent discoveries on the detection of temperature and touch by our nervous system. This has heralded much...