Bonepain News

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

At the beginning of October 2021 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) Lydia Moll and Nils Simon gave two online “Skype a scientist” sessions for High School students in the USA. “Skype a scientist” is an online platform that offers the public a great opportunity to meet with various scientists from all over the world. Lydia and

The Second Annual BonePainII took place in Porto 22-24 September 2021. This was the first time the Consortium could meet in person again since the kick-off meeting in September 2019 London, due to Covid-19.  The Early Stage Researchers (ESR) started the meeting with a site visit to the facilities of the I3S – Instituto de

On 11 March 2021 Iain Chessell, Global Head of Neuroscience, BioPharmaceuticals Research & Development at AstraZeneca, UK, gave an inspirational career talk to the BonePainII ESRs in the BonePainII Informal Career Talks Serie.  Iain Chessell presented the choices he had made in his career. He stressed the importance of diversity, people and integrity in his

My name is Matthijs van der Moolen and I am a PhD-student in the Neuro-microphysiological Systems Group of Dr. Paolo Cesare. I invite you to watch this short-but-sweet impression of what a typical day of research looks like for an ESR in the BonePain II network. (Clearly a lot of fun!) I am working on establishing

Stefania Kalogera and Khaled Mohamed conduct their research projects at Nordic Bioscience  in Denmark. On 7 October 2020 they gave a virtual tour of Nordic Bioscience to their fellow PhD students in the network.  Nordic Bioscience is a world-leading biomarker (extracellular matrix) specialist, which offers customized development of highly disease-specific biochemical markers for diagnosis and

The BonePainII Mid-Term Check and First Annual Meeting took place online on 27-28 April 2020. The Mid-Term Check aims to assess the monitoring the fulfilment of the recruitment procedure, the eligibility of the early stage researchers and raise awareness of the rights and obligations of the early stage researchers and the beneficiaries.  Despite change of

Two of the Early Stage Researchers of the BonePain II network, Chelsea Hopkins and Ahmed Barakat from the University of Copenhagen, represented the BonePainII network together with their supervisor, Anne-Marie Heegaard, at the 3rd Danish Bone Research Workshop on January 31 – February 2, 2020.  The workshop is an initiative to promote interaction between bone