Biography for Professor Andreas Goebel:
Andreas Goebel was born and raised in Wiesbaden/Germany, trained in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine in Wuerzburg/Germany, and in the UK (Oxford, UCL), and studied post-trauma immunology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, US.
Appointed Consultant in Pain Medicine at the Liverpool/UK Walton Centre in 2007, the largest UK Pain Management service; University of Liverpool Senior Lecturer in Pain medicine 2008, Reader 2016; promoted to Chair of Pain Medicine 2023; Director of the University’s Pain Research Institute.
Andreas’ research has focused on the role of the adaptive immune system in causing chronic pain. He first proposed in 2005 that ‘unexplained’ chronic pains may be caused by non-destructive, non-inflammatory, ‘functional’ IgG autoantibodies and that passive transfer experimental approaches can be used to investigate this.
In this inaugural lecture, Andreas will describe his recent research results voted 2021 Guardian Top 10 Science Story, which have led to the worldwide first biologics trial in Fibromyalgia Syndrome just completed in England’s North-West.
