This international recognition was awarded to him for his discoveries on chronic pain and the functioning of the central nervous system.
Yves De Koninck, Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the CERVO Research Centre, has been awarded the 2025 Unité-Guerra-Paul-Beaudoin-Lambrecht-Maiano Prize.
This distinction was granted in recognition of his groundbreaking work demonstrating that chronic pain results from a dysfunction of the central nervous system and therefore constitutes a disease in its own right. This discovery marks a major turning point in the understanding of pain and opens the door to new therapeutic approaches.
The prize, unanimously awarded by the jury, will be presented to Professor De Koninck during a ceremony to be held on January 27, 2026, at the Institut de France in Paris.
