Danish Pain Research Center

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New PhD student at The Danish Pain Research Center

April 2025: We are happy to welcome Mads Würgler Hansen as a new PhD student at The Danish Pain Research Center, where he will be working at the project ”Spatial sequencing of skin biopsies to understand molecular mechanisms of pain in Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN)”. 


PhD defence: Nina Lykkegaard Gehr

Congratulations to Nina Lykkegaard Gehr, who succesfully defended her PhD.

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. 

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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”. 


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.