The Challenges of Chronic Pain, organized by the Wellcome Genome Campus will take place from 1st March to 3rd March 2017 at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like key advances in our understanding of peripheral and central pain mechanisms, pathways and processes, explore the clinical landscape of chronic pain and pain syndromes, and address innovative approaches in target validation in animal and human studies, and their translation into novel therapeutic interventions.