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SUMMARY:Challenges\, psychology and successes\; developing novel drugs to 
 treat chronic pain - Fraser Welsh
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CONTACT:Flavia Bartoletti
DESCRIPTION:Discovery and development of a novel pharmaceutical is fraught
  with complexity\, expense\, time pressure and failures. The field of Neur
 oscience\, and in particular chronic pain\, is an especially demanding one
 . The unmet need for people suffering from chronically painful conditions 
 is enormous. Approximately ⅓ of the population have from chronic pain at
  some point in their lives and of those only ⅓ will get any relief from 
 existing analgesics. The hunt is on for novel mechanistic approaches to tr
 eating pain. But how do you accurately measure something as subjective as 
 pain and how does psychology impact a clinical trial?\n\nFraser Welsh is a
  consultant in pharmaceutical development. He has over 25 years experience
  in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry at Cambridge Antibody Te
 chnology (CAT)\, MedImmune and AstraZeneca. He has worked extensively on t
 he discovery\, engineering and clinical development of antibody drugs in a
  number of diseases but predominantly in Neuroscience and chronic pain. Mo
 st recently he has lead the clinical development of a novel analgesic thro
 ugh successful Phase 2 clinical trials.
LOCATION:Lucy Cavendish College\, Wood-Legh Room\, Strathaird
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