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Two PhD students from the BonePainII network participated in the Culture Night in Copenhagen on 14 October 2022. The Culture Night is a big annual outreach event. This evening museums, universities, theaters and various other public and private organizations, buildings and companies in Copenhagen are open to the public.  At the pain booth at the

A BonePainII PhD student, Chelsea Hopkins, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, won the prize for the best oral presentation at the In Vivo Pharmacology Annual Meeting in 2022. It is organized by the Graduate School of the Department of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, every year, allowing participating students to present their research projects.

Dr Kirsty Bannister, Associate Professor at King’s College London in the UK and member of the BonePainII network received the Patrick D. Wall Young Investigator Prize for Basic Science. This prize recognizes an individual who has achieved a high level of independence as an outstanding scholar in the field of pain in basic science. Dr

Four PhD students from the BonePainII network gave a poster presentation at the recent IASP 2022 World Congress on Pain on 19-23 September 2022 in Toronto, Canada. It is a leading conference within the international pain community for pain professionals from around the world. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) organizes the

Matthijs van der Moolen, a BonePainII PhD student, gave a poster presentation at the 4th annual EUROoCS Conference on 4-5 July 2022 in Grenoble, France. EUROoCS is the European Organ-on-Chip Society. Matthijs had the great opportunity to present his research into bone-related neuropathy driven by cancer metastasize. At poster stand 34 (out of around 170

The BonePainII Consortium was strongly represented at the Pain Mechanisms and Therapeutics Conference in Verona 2022. Dr Kirsty Bannister, Associate Professor at King’s College London, UK, and member of the BonePainII Consortium is one of the two organizers of the conference. Members of the BonePainII network chaired three sessions and gave six talks at the

In mid-May the BonePainII Consortium convened in Cambridge for its final meeting, this time at the brand new AstraZeneca Discovery Centre in Cambridge, UK. It has been a pleasure to follow the journey of our 15 Early Stage Researchers in the BonePainII network, a European Innovative Training Network committed to promote training within bone pain. 

Clarissa Butti, a BonePainII PhD student at University College London, UCL, UK, was invited as a speaker at an event organised by the Rotary Club Lecco Le Grigne in Lecco, Italy, 21 April 2022. The title of her talk was “From theory to action: my little contribution in fighting pain”. Clarissa started by presenting her

Stephania Kalegora, a BonePainII PhD student based at the Danish company Nordic Bioscience, had a poster presentation at the OARSI conference in Berlin 7-10 April 2022.  The title of her poster was “A Noval Cathepsin K Mediated Fragment of C-Reactive Protein As a Biomarker for Bone Inflammation”.  Together with colleagues from Nordic Bioscience Stephania presented