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 →
CIHR grants 2026
Congratulations to the recipients of the CIHR Project Grants 2026: Gabrielle Pagé, Anaïs Lacasse, Guillaume…
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…
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 →
Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI)
The Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI) was created to bring together student researchers…
‘I show off’ meeting travel award 2026-2027
The meeting travel award program allows trainees to attend conferences related to pain or related…
PAINtalks 2026
The 11th edition of the PAINtalks organized by the Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators…
Popularized publications →
Side effects of pain medications in children after surgery
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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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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…
Publications of the month 2023
Find the monthly publications of QPRN members by selecting the different months of the year.
Modulation of SK channels via calcium buffering
This video describes the modulation of SK Channels via calcium buffering that tunes intrinsic excitability…
Exercise and pain
This video presents a review of the evidence for the impact of therapeutic exercise in…
Exercise and chronic pain at the transcriptomics level
This video is a description of a research project that Ivan Chumakov, a student in…
Emerson Krock research receives triple funding
Emerson Krock is Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences,…
A research project serving clinical practice
Etienne Vachon-Presseau, Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences, and…
Insight on people seeking care for low back pain and osteoarthritis
Goal Osteoarthritis and low back pain have an important and similar economic burden on our…
Little known things about expectations
Goal Stéphanie Cormier and Alexandra Lévesque-Lacasse wanted to better understand what are some of the…
Assessing drug treatments for neuropathic pain in real-life clinical setting
Goal Neuropathic pain can have many direct and indirect healthcare costs and proper prevention, treatment…
Members of the Quebec Back Pain Consortium received the CIHR-IMHA Prize
Project summary Persistent low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of years lived with…
Etienne Vachon-Presseau and his research team in the news
Using data available from the UK Biobank of nearly 500,000 people, Etienne Vachon-Presseau’s research team…
Peer support groups, one step closer to feeling better
Goal To slow down the progression of scoliosis, a non-surgical approach of bracing is often…
Ji Zhang and Francis Beaudry funded by the CIHR to study chronic pain in...
Project summary A step back in time, is it possible?Chronic pain increases with age. Unfortunately,…
Carol Meloto and Audrey Grant funded by the CIHR to predict low back pain
project summary Low back pain (LBP) is the leading global cause of years lived with…
Facial pain: what are the clinical and psychological differences of people living with painful...
Goal The largest study about painful temporomandibular disorders (pTMDs) that assessed pain in the joint…
Consortium’s publications
Quebec consortium on mapping of pain circuits Quebec consortium on adverse effects of pain medications…
Tim Wideman becomes Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Whole Person Care
Tim Wideman is a physiotherapist, Professor at McGill University’s School of Physical and Occupational Therapy,…
Arkady Khoutorsky and Jeffrey Mogil honored by McGill University
Sixteen researchers became James McGill Distinguished Professors – McGill’s highest distinction – awarded to late-career…
Funding for training talent in drug development
Congratulations to Philippe Sarret, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the…
2023 Pilot projects
This program serves to initiate and promote innovative and not funded aspect of the scientific…
