The UCSF Pain and Addiction Research Center (PARC) aims to provide a unified response to two major public health challenges: chronic pain and addiction.
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ALT May PARC Seminar "Joint Pain Matters: Lessons Learnt from Osteoarthritis," presented by Anne-Marie Malfait, MD, PhD, featuring a smiling woman standing in a lab space wearing a white sweater.
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ALT April PARC Seminar "Intersection of hyperalgesia and hyperkatifeia as a driving force for negative reinforcement in addiction," presented by Dr. George F. Koob, featuring a smiling man with white hair wearing glasses and a suit and tie.
ALT March PARC Seminar "Buprenorphine inductions: low dose, high dose, direct-to-inject, and everything in between," presented by Drs. Leslie Suen, Damian Peterson, and Sarah Rosenwohl-Mack.
ALT February PARC Seminar "Low-intensity focused ultrasound for substance use disorders and beyond" presented by Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
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ALT January PARC Seminar: The orphan receptors GPR63 and GPR153 enhance antinociception in pathological pain by suppressing microglial activation in the murine spinal cord, presented by John M. Streicher, PhD.
ALT December PARC Seminar: Endogenous opioids orchestrate aversive and reward learning processes in the amygdala presented by Elena Bagley, PhD.
ALT November PARC Seminar: A neural basis for descending pain modulation at the single cell level, presented by Patrik Ernfors, PhD.
ALT October PARC Seminar: Probing the Role of Extended Amygdala Circuitry in Behavior, presented by Thomas Kash, PhD.
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ALT Smiling man with glasses and gray hair wearing a dark sweater. With text reading: Howard Fields Symposium: 50 Years of Pain and Pleasure: Howard Fields at UCSF. July 14, 2025, 1:30 - 5:50 p.m., Sandler Auditorium and Zoom.
ALT May PARC Seminar: Harnessing Health Signals with Large-Scale Mobile Sensor Data for Modeling Substance Use Disorder, presented by Tauhidur Rahman, PhD.
ALT April PARC Seminar: ACVR1 sensory neuron-specific signaling in neuropathic pain and injury-induced heterotopic ossification, presented by Xiaobing Yu, MD.
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ALT March PARC Seminar: Optimizing the use of ketamine to reduce chronic postsurgical pain in women undergoing mastectomy for oncologic indication, presented by Jing Wang, MD, PhD.
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