RSPCA Focus on Severe Suffering UK: Minimising pain

This event forms part of the RSPCA's "Focus on Severe Suffering" initiative. This will be an interdisciplinary meeting to discuss refining pain management in pain research, and in painful procedures and disease models.

Participants will have the opportunity to compare approaches to refinement, share good practice and discuss barriers to reducing pain in research and testing. Sessions will include:

• Refinements in pain research.
• Refining painful procedures in other research fields.
• Interactive discussion – moving forwards with reducing the severity of painful procedures.

The meeting is free to attend and lunch and refreshments will be provided.