On the evening of Friday 9th October we welcomed our very first guest speaker Paul Chazot to give a talk on chronic pain and his career is neuroscience. Paul is a pharmacologist and neuroscientist at the Durham Biosciences Department, with diverse research interests in the fields of drug development and neurological disorders. Chronic pain affects over 25% of the population. Still, its importance as a disease was only recognised by the WHO last year. After an introduction to the complex neural processes underlying pain, Paul argued that the treatment of chronic pain requires different drugs from the ones normally used against acute pain. However, in lack of better treatments, patients…