Scott Fotheringham

Janet Rossant is the president and scientific director of the Gairdner Foundation, which bestows the Canada Gairdner Awards. She is also a professor in Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Molecular Genetics, and the chief of research emeritus and senior scientist emeritus at The Hospital for Sick Children. Over the course of more than 50 years as a scientist, I’ve held many roles. One thing has never been clearer. Now, more than ever, we must stand up for science.

We flinch in anticipation — a squint, a grimace, a breath held tight. Sudden or slow. Lingering or fleeting. Pain is the body’s Red Alert — shaping how we move, live and heal. More than sensation, pain is a memory, biology, psychology. The stories in this issue trace the edges of pain — how we feel it, fight it and begin to understand it. And how science is moving us closer to lasting relief.

“New developments in the science of motion picture photography are not abundant at this advanced stage of the game but periodically one is perfected to make this a greater art.” ~ Gregg Toland, 1941 in Theater Arts In 1941, cinematographer Gregg Toland approached Orson Welles, asking the director to let him shoot Citizen Kane.