Danish Pain Research Center

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PhD defence: Nina Lykkegaard Gehr

Nina Lykkegaard Gehr, MD, from The Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis titled ”Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: Studies exploring early biomarkers and long-term consequences” at 14.00 on March 28, 2025. 

Invitation and Press Release


New PhD student at The Danish Pain Research Center

March 2025: We are happy to welcome Lennart Kjær Madsen, MD, as a new PhD student at The Danish Pain Research Center, where he will be working at the project ”Neuropathic Pain in Guillain-Barré Syndrome”. 


New post.doc. at the Danish Pain Research Center

February 2025: We are pleased to welcome Julie Schjødtz Hansen as a new post.doc. at the Danish Pain Research Center.


New PhD student at The Danish Pain Research Center

February 2025: We are happy to welcome Pernille Bormlund Thomsen as a new PhD student at The Danish Pain Research Center, where she in Greenland will be working at the project ”Sianiutitigut nappaatit - The Role of Genetics and Risk Factors on Diabetes Related Polyneuropathy defining Differences and Similarities Between Greenlandic Inuit and Danes”. 


PhD defence: Peter Kolind Brask-Thomsen

Congratulations to Peter Kolind Brask-Thomsen, who succesfully defended his PhD.

PhD defence: Peter Kolind Brask-Thomsen

Peter Kolind Brask-Thomsen, MD, from The Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, will defend his PhD thesis titled ”Natural history of painful and non-painful diabetic polyneuropathy” at 15.00 on September 27, 2024. 

Invitation and Press Release


PhD defence: Malin Erika Overlade Carmland

Congratulations to Malin Erika Overlade Carmland, who succesfully defended her PhD.

Malin Erika Overlade Carmland, MD, from The Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis titled ”Precision medicine in the management of peripheral neuropathic pain” at 13.00 on July 5, 2024. 

Invitation and Press Release


The Danish Pain Research Center is a research unit under Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University. The centre is affiliated with the Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital. 

The centre was founded in 1994 with the aim to study chronic pain, in particular neuropathic pain and to understand underlying mechanisms and to improve treatment.

The research attempts to bridge the gap between pain physiology, experimental and clinical pain research and takes place in an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers and clinicians in national and international research networks.