Events →
Science Café on pain
On June 10, 2026, the Quebec Pain Research Network, in collaboration with Fibromyalgie Laval and…
Special webinar: Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans
Dr. Major (retired) Luc J. Hébert, fellow PT, PhD, CD will present the collaboration between…
Fundings →
Special webinar: Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans
Dr. Major (retired) Luc J. Hébert, fellow PT, PhD, CD will present the collaboration between…
Pilot Projects 2026
This program serves to initiate and promote an innovative and not funded aspect of the…
FRQS Research Scholars 2025
Congratulations to our members on their success in the FRQ scholarships competition !
News of our researchers →
News from our members
Discover the achievements, projects, partnerships, and advances in pain research of our members.. April 2025…
Quebec Expertise in Chiropractic Honoured at the WFC World Congress
From May 7 to 10, 2025, over 30 representatives from Quebec took part in the…
A Canada-wide project to better understand chronic pain among veterans
In this episode, Anaïs Lacasse—full professor and holder of the Institutional Research Chair in Chronic…
News of our students →
‘I show off’ meeting travel award 2026-2027
The meeting travel award program allows trainees to attend conferences related to pain or related…
PAINtalks 2025
The 10th edition of the PAINtalks organized by the Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators…
Let’s Talk About Pain podcast season 2
The Quebec Pain Research Netowrk (QPRN), in collaboration with the Quebec Network of Junior Pain…
Popularized publications →
Pain after breast cancer: which strategies can help?
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Managing pain after a brain or spinal cord injury
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Stress and Low Back Pain
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Scientific advances →
The Future of Persistent Pain Management: What Are the Priorities for Quebec?
With the support of the Ministry of Health and Social Services, a consultative session with…
Quebec Consortium on Veteran’s Health
Objective The objectives of this multidisciplinary consortium are to study the navigation of veterans living…
FRQS Research Scholars 2022
Congratulations to our members for their success in the FRQS scholarship competition ! – Simon…
CIHR grants 2022
Congratulations to the recipients of the CIHR Project Grants 2022 : Hugues Allard-Chamard, Understanding the…
The decision value of future pain
Goal The main objective of this study was to examine how the brain represents future…
Measurement grimace scales for pain assessment in nonhuman mammals
Goal Grimace scales need to undergo several steps of validation to ensure they measure what…
Exploring the interaction between sex hormones and the control of persistent osteoarthritis pain
Goal One of the primary symptoms and reasons for medical consultation in patients developing osteoarthritis…
Lives Penciled In, A Metaphor to Explore Experiences of Pain
Goal Richard Hovey and his graduate students reflected on the metaphor of penciled-in lives to…
New biomarkers for low back pain
goal Biological markers or simply ‘biomarkers’ are important to help identify and diagnose a medical…
Research in space
Montreal investor and philanthropist Mark Pathy decided to take a trip into space and share…
Stress, pain and play
Najmeh Khalili-Mahani, a QPRN member, is a professor at Concordia University and director of the…
Reza Sharif, recipient of the McGill Innovation Fund
The first ever McGill Innovation Fund competition was held on December 9, 2021. Nine winners…
A new approach to pain
Kadija Perreault is a member of the RQRD, a professor in the Department of Rehabilitation…
Manon Choinière, winner of Reseau1-Quebec’s call for research projects on innovations
Since 2013, Réseau 1-Quebec has launched an annual call for research projects on innovations to…
Anaïs Lacasse recognized for the exceptional quality of her teaching
In a desire to recognize the exceptional quality of the teaching offered by its faculty…
Data and algorithms against neurological diseases
Maxime Descoteaux is a member of the RQRD and a professor in the Department of…
Pain according to sex
Some chronic pain conditions, such as migraines or fibromyalgia, are much more prevalent in women…
Phenotyping Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Adolescents
Don Daniel Ocay presents his dissertation work on the Alan Edwards Center for Pain Research…
Prestigious funding from the Lundbeck Foundation for Jade Degrandmaison
Congratulations to Jade Degrandmaison who brilliantly defended her doctoral thesis on Delta opioid receptors (DOPr),…
Anne Hudon – Eva Kehayia Recognition Award Winner
On May 5th, the Scientific Direction of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of…
Innovative approach to treating lumbar spinal stenosis
A group of researchers from the UQTR, including Martin Descarreaux, and the CIUSSS MCQ, associated…
Pilot projects 2022
Congratulations to the 2022 recipients ! – Caroline Arbour –For her project : Pupillometry to…
