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Grant from The Riisfort Foundation

2025: Congratulations to clinical Associate Professor and MD Sandra Sif Gylfadottir from The Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, who has received a grant of DKK 267.400 from The Riisfort Foundation to the research project ”Improving our understanding and treatment of chronic pain”.


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”.