QU-CMED professor speaks at Italy event

Qatar University College of Medicine (QU-CMED) professor of biochemistry Prof Bared Safieh-Garabedian was recently invited as visiting distinguished faculty to give a lecture at the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies, Certosa di Pontignano, Italy.Around 40 postdoctoral scientists and clinicians from around the world attended the stimulating course entitled “Chronic Pain: Plasticity and Therapeutic Perspectives” that ran presentations over a period of seven days.In his lecture on “Inflammation and Chronic Pain,” the QU-CMED faculty member discussed the different components of inflammation and how targeting inflammatory mediators might result in novel therapeutic approaches in neuropathic pain.