Science and Research
Aims
The aims of the Science and Research Standing Committee are to:
- be the scientific policy-maker for IHS
- promote and facilitate basic and applied research in the study of headache, with emphasis on pathophysiology and treatment, enquiring into what research is being done and setting out opinion on what ought to be done
- encourage and sponsor the training of young investigators through fellowship programmes
- advise the scientific programme committees of each International Headache Congress
- support national and regional headache societies in the development of guidelines.
Members
Chair
Members
- Edoardo Caronna (Spain)
- Shih-Pin Chen (Taiwan)
- Irene de Boer (Netherlands)
- Roberto de Icco (Italy)
- Rune Hackert-Christensen (Denmark)
- Mi Ji Lee (Korea)
- Marco Lisicki (Argentina)
- Agustin Melo-Carillo (USA)
- Bianca Raffaelli (Germany)
Activities and news
The Science and Research Committee, in conjunction with the Education Committee, offers international fellowships.
IHS Clinical and Basic Science Headache Research Fellowship Awards
The IHS Fellowship Award is a 1-year fellowship award which aims to support innovative and impactful research from young investigators, promote the career of young investigators in the field of headache, and increase the knowledge base of headache disorders.
For details of current Fellowship opportunities see the Grants and Awards page.
Reports from past Fellows can be found below.
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Past Fellows
- 2017 – Kuan-Po Peng, Taiwan
Fellowship mentor: Arne May
Institution: Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Research title: Exploring phasic changes of pain determination in migraine
Presentation: IHC 2019
Kuan-Po currently works as a researcher at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf with Prof. May. His work focused on sensory processing in primary headache disorders. He is also a member of the Junior Editorial Board of Cephalalgia and an active member of the international headache society (IHS). - 2017 – Inge Mulder, Netherlands
Fellowship mentor: Cenk Ayata
Institution: Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical
School-Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Research title: CGRP antagonism and the outcome after (transient) cerebral ischemia
Presentation: IHC 2019
Inge is now working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam University Medical Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering & Physics, The Netherlands. She is working on the effect of incomplete microvascular reperfusion after mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke - 2016 – Doga Vuralli, Turkey
Fellowship mentor: Cenk Ayata
Institution: Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School-Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Research title: Sulfotransferase inhibitors in the pathophysiology of migraine
Presentation: IHC 2019
Doga now works at Gazi University, Department of Neurology and Algology, in Ankara, Turkey, as a neurologist and headache/pain medicine specialist. She is involved in translational migraine research and neurophysiological studies focusing particularly on dysfunctional sensory processing in migraine - 2015 – Kristian Haanes, Denmark
Fellowship mentor: Antoinette Maassen van den Brink
Institution: Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Research title: Purinergic receptor exploration in migraine – eliminating the disadvantages of yesterday’s drugs (PUREMEDY)
Presentation: IHC 2017 - 2014 – Marta Vila, Spain
Fellowship mentor: Peter Goadsby and Philip Holland
Institution: King’s College London, London, UK
Research title: Brainstem modulation in the pathophysiology of migraine
Presentation: IHC 2017
Marta is a now a neuroscientist currently working as a senior postdoctoral researcher at King’s College London with Dr Holland, Dr Hoffmann and Prof Goadsby. Her work is focused on studying the pathophysiology of primary headaches in preclinical models of migraine and TACs. She is also a member of the Junior Editorial Board of The Journal of Headache and Pain and is an active member of several scientific societies, such as IHS and IASP
2013 – Kıvılcım Kılıç, Turkey
Fellowship mentor: Anna Devor
Institution: University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA
Research title: Two-photon imaging of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cortical spreading depolarization (CSD) induced vascular responses in vivo
Presentation: IHC 2015 - 2012 – Laine Green, Canada
Fellowship mentor: Frank Porreca and David Dodick
Institution: Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona, Tucson and Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, USA
Research title: Susceptibility to cortical spreading depression in an animal model of triptan medication overuse headache
Post fellowship Laine was at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia. In November 2019 he moved the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth College and is a staff physician in the Department of Neurology and Assistant Professor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, predominantly practicing headache medicine - 2012 – Thijs Houben, Netherlands
Fellowship mentor: Cenk Ayata
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, USA
Research title: Visual evoked responses in migraine mutant mice as a monitoring tool of the excitability state of the migraine brain
Presentation: IHC 2015 - 2012 – Homa Sadeghian
Fellowship mentor: Cenk Ayata
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, USA
Research title: Cortical spreading depression and blood brain barrier
Presentation: IHC 2015 - 2011 – Volodymyr Bogdanov
Fellowship mentor: K C Brennan
Institution: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Research title: Toward a naturalistic model of migraine aura
Presentation: IHC 2013
Volodymyr’s fellowship research shed light on the mechanisms of differential predisposition of cerebral cortex to cortical spreading depression and yielded a number of publications, including a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience. He now works in France in the domain of psychophysiology of audiovisual perception, and is doing research on multidisciplinary human neuroscience and plans further studies of enigmatic migraine aura - 2011 – Jakob Møller Hansen
Fellowship mentor: Andrew Charles
Institution: David Geffen School of Medicine, University of Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Research title: Imaging migraine mechanisms – from cells to humans
Presentation: IHC 2013