Bonepain News

On December 7, 2018, the Early Stage Researcher Manasi Sayilekshmy defended her PhD thesis in front of friends and co-workers as part of the BonePain network at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.  Her assessment committee was composed of Clinical Professor Niklas Rye Jørgensen from Rigshospitalet Glostrup and the University of Southern Denmark, Professor Chantal Chenu

On December 6th, 2018, Anna Katri defended her PhD. Anna conducted a three-year PhD study within the BonePain network at the drug development company Nordic Bioscience, located in Herlev (just 20 minutes from Copenhagen), Denmark.  Her PhD thesis was assessed by Gordon Munro, Senior Research Scientist, the Danish Headache Center, Denmark, Professor Chantal Chenu from

On October 26, 2018, our first Early Stage Researcher within the BonePain network defended her PhD thesis at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Marta Díaz del Castillo defended her thesis “Underlying mechanisms of malignant and non-malignant bone pain” in front of a numerous family members, friends and co-workers, as well as her assessment committee. The

Congratulations to Professor Tony Dickenson, UCL, for his award of Honorary Membership of the International Association for the Study of Pain, their highest accolade, for his outstanding contributions to this field of study as well as service to the IASP. Professor Dickenson   Professor Dickenson was honoured with the award at the World Pain Congress

‘Copenhell’ is one of the biggest Scandinavian heavy metal festivals, held annually in Copenhagen. Copenhell, which took place 21-23 June 2018, combines some of the biggest names in the heavy metal scene with dozens of thematic stands, focusing in a wide range of topics from tattooing to pain research.  That’s right! This year, two of

Some of the BonePain students will represent BonePain at the Copenhell festival, the biggest festival on rock and metal music in Denmark, which attracts thousands of rock- and metal fans from in- and outside Copenhagen. Participants at the festival get the chance to test their pain level and will get information on BonePain.

The third Annual BonePain Meeting was held at the Karolinska Institute on 26-28 February 2018. Principal investigators (PIs) and the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in the consortium gathered in the snow in Stockholm. The theme of the meeting was preparing the ESRs for their next career step. The PIs addressed questions about career choices and

BonePain was represented at a “Feel the Pain” stand at the popular Culture night outreach event in the autumn 2017, which attracted thousands of guests. Curiosity and fascination characterised the atmosphere, when more than 7,200 visitors attended the Culture night event at the Mærsk Tower of the Faculty of Medical and Heath at the University