Professor Andreas Goebel MSc (Pain Medicine) PhD FRCA FFPMRCA

Chair of Pain Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Pain Medicine, Director Pain Research Institute Musculoskeletal & Ageing Science

Research

Research Overview

Metrics: H-factor 34, citations: 5000

Research Grants

Pain Mechanisms in long-Covid

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2022 - April 2025

Identifying molecular mechanisms underlying pain relief response to physiotherapy in people with osteoarthritis

VERSUS ARTHRITIS (UK)

September 2023 - August 2026

A Randomised Controlled Trial to investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Paravertebral Blockade compared with Thoracic Epidural Blockade in reducing Chronic Post-Thoracotomy Pain (TOPIC II)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

May 2018 - November 2022

Equipment

PAIN RELIEF FOUNDATION (UK)

December 2020 - November 2021

Autoimmunity-Informed Phentoyyping in Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain Sufferers

PAIN RELIEF FOUNDATION (UK)

June 2020 - November 2022

Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist treatment for refractory complex regional pain syndrome (INCA)

THE EDELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION (USA)

April 2020 - October 2024

A randomised patient-assessor blinded sham controlled trial of External non-invasive peripheral nerve stimulation for chronic neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve injury” – the EN-PENS trial

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

June 2016 - May 2020

Pain evoked by passive transfer of IgG from fibromyalgia patients to mice

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2018 - October 2021

'Molecular Mechanisms of CRPS Pain'

ARTHRITIS RESEARCH UK

April 2017 - March 2020

Pain Relief Infrastructure support - Serena Sensi

PAIN RELIEF FOUNDATION (UK)

September 2019 - August 2022

Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for longstanding complex regional pain syndrome

BIOTEST AG (GERMANY), DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

December 2012 - July 2018

Research Collaborations

Walter Magerl

External: University of Heidelberg and Mannheim, Germany

EN-PNS trial and LTD-studies

Selina Johnson

Internal

Clinical studies in neuropathic pain and CRPS

Geoff Woods

External: University of Cambridge

Genetics of primary chronic pains

David Andersson

External: King's College London

Nociceptor function in models of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Sarosh Irani

External: University of Oxford

Autoantibody assessment in primary chronic pain

Andrew Marshall

Internal

Psychophysics assessment of primary chronic pains

Uazman Alam

Internal

Small fiber assessment in FMS

Rob Moots

Internal

Clinical Trials with Immune Drugs, Behcet Disease Studies

Dean Naisbitt

Internal

Adaptive immune system in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Zsuzsanna Helyes

External: University of Pecs, Hungary

Development and definition of a passive-transfer trauma rodent model for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Turo Nurmikko

Internal

EN-PNS trial, brain stimulation, sensory nerve function in CRPS