Conferences and symposiums Symposium on the recent advances in Cluster Headache research and medicine

16-05-2025 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Add to iCal
Campus Solna Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, Solna
decorative image of half a woman and half a man suffering from headache.
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Welcome to the very first international Cluster Headache Symposium, a Nobel Mini-symposium in the series 'Frontiers in Medicine' and supported by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. While the symposium is free to attend, we kindly ask you to register promptly due to limited seating. The event will be held in Nobel Forum, Campus Solna on Friday 16 May 2025

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Registration

Register to the symposium no later than 16 March 2025

Programme

08:30-09:00
Registration
09:00-09:10
Welcome speech

Andrea Carmine Belin, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Cluster Headache, Department of Neuroscience

09:10-10:10
Session 1: Headache pathophysiology and neuropeptides

Chair: Gilberto Fisone, Karolinska Institutet

09:10-09:40
The Pathophysiology of cluster headache

Speaker: Prof. Peter Goadsby, King's College London, UK and University of California, USA

09:40-10:10
Neuropeptides in headache disorders

Speaker: Prof. Lars Edvinsson, Lund University, Sweden

10:10-10:30
Coffee break
10:30-12:15
Session 2: Headache treatment and care

Chair: Per Svenningsson, Karolinska Institutet

10:30-11:00
GBD and headache disorders

Speaker: Mario Peres, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil

11:00-11:15
Headache care in Sweden

Speaker: Prof. Mattias Linde, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden and NTNU, Norway

11:15-11:30
Treatments and clinical aspects of cluster headache

Speaker: Dr. Christina Sjöstrand, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

11:30-11:45
Psylocybin in research and the clinic

Speaker: Dr. Pablo Lopez, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

11:45-12:15
Surgical treatment/imaging/AI of headache disorders

Speaker: Prof. Erling Tronvik, NTNU, Norway

12:15-13:30
Lunch break
13:30-14:45
Session 3: Pain mechanisms and models

Chair: Ida Nilsson, Karolinska Institutet

13:30-14:00
Delineation of cell types driving pain

Speaker: Prof. Patrik Ernfors, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

14:00-14:30
In vitro and in vivo models of headache disorders

Speaker: Prof. Arn van den Maagdenberg, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

14:30-14_45
Genetics of headache disorders

Speaker: Dr. Andrea Carmine Belin, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

14:45-15:30
Coffee break
15:30-17:00
Session 4: Headache pain – relation to sex, chronobiology and placebo

Chair: Andrea Carmine Belin, Karolinska Institutet

15:30-14:45
Mental health and headache

Speaker: Dr. Caroline Ran, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

15:45-16:15
Pain in relation to self-injury and placebo effects

Speaker: Prof. Karin Jensen, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

16:15-16:45
Chronobiology and sex differences in cluster headache

Speaker: Prof. Rigmor Jensen, Danish Headache Center, Denmark

16:45-17:00
Concluding remarks and future directions

Dr. Andrea Carmine Belin, Karolinska Institutet

18:00-22:00
Dinner (limited number of seats)

Venue: TBD

Organising committee

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Andrea Carmine Belin

Principal Researcher
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Caroline Ran

Research Specialist
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Christina Sjöstrand

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Contact

Camilla Ineman

Meeting coordinator
+46 (0)8-123 557 43 or +46 (0)70-269 93 46