Doctor Chelsea Hopkins recently completed her postdoctoral research on bone pain in Professor Heegaard’s laboratory at the University of Copenhagen, soon to join Doctor Bell’s laboratory at the University of Glasgow. Having completed her MPhil at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she moved to Copenhagen to complete her PhD, uncovering mechanisms of fibrous dysplasia bone pain within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie BonePainII network. After, she joined the a Eurostars Eureka Network investigating novel treatments of cancer-induced bone pain. She will join the Spinal Cord Group at the University of Glasgow to enrich her background in central processes. Doctor Hopkins also contributes to patient-partnered research strategies and translational medicine. She has also been chosen to join the EFIC Rising Star Programme to empower early-stage pain researchers.