O'Keeffe Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2025

New frontiers in chronic pain management: A personalised support package targeting the mechanistic links between social disadvantage and pain sensitisation

This project will advance chronic pain treatment by developing a personalised support package tailored to patients' unique social, biological, and psychological drivers of pain. Chronic pain affects billions and costs Europe €440 billion annually. Socially disadvantaged individuals, especially those of low socioeconomic status, are disproportionately affected, but current treatments primarily target biological and psychological factors, overlooking social elements. This gap may explain the modest and short-lived effects of current treatments, particularly in vulnerable groups. I hypothesise that adding personalised community support—an approach not yet explored for pain—will enhance…

From the public funding record at EU CORDIS. Describes the funded project, not the reviews below.