On August 24, 2017, the Texas Pain Research Consortium hosted its second biennial scientific meeting beachfront at the historic Hotel Galvez in Galveston, Texas. The meeting was organized by the consortium’s co-chairs, Ted Price and Jin Mo Chung, and hosted by the University of Texas Medical Branch with support from the UT system, the Gulf Coast Consortia, and Purdue Pharma. Despite the looming Hurricane Harvey, there was an impressive turnout of 133 attendees including basic scientists, clinicians, postdoctoral trainees, and graduate students from 19 universities across Texas.