They are a consolidated research group with extensive experience in pain research. They have the capacity to evaluate the analgesic potential of new drugs in an extensive repertoire of animal models of pain of diverse aetiology, and with a high translational value (nociceptive pain, postoperative, visceral, pain due to inflammation in soft tissue, rheumatoid arthritis, neuropathy due to antineoplastic or induced by mechanical damage to a nerve, among others). In addition, they have a wide range of different stimuli for the assessment of the analgesic effect of drugs, including different stimuli for the assessment of the analgesic effect of drugs, including mechanical, heating, cold stimuli, functional tests (such as the assessment of grip strength or locomotor activity), as well as the assessment of continuous/spontaneous pain using artificial intelligence algorithms.

The main lines of research of this research group are: 

- Physiopathology of acute and chronic pain.

- New measures of pain and analgesia in experimental animals.