Edward Bilsky leads sessions on pain at the Annual World Pharma Congress meetings

Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., the associate provost for research and scholarship and professor of pharmacology in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, recently chaired sessions at the World Pharma Congress.  This two day meeting took place on June 6-7, 2012 in Philadelphia, and focused on targeting acute and chronic pain with novel therapeutics. 

On the first day, Dr. Bilsky led an Interactive Discussion Group on “The Next Generation of Opioid Therapeutics”. On Day 2 he chaired a morning session entitled “Rethinking Animal Models and Predictivity” that included presentations from both academia and industry on how to better assess preclinical efficacy of analgesic drug candidates.

Now in its fifth year, Targeting Pain with Novel Therapeutics offers an established forum for pain researchers from across pharma and academia to gather and discuss the latest developments in pre-clinical candidates and models, advances in translational strategies, and updates on clinical results.