EFIC-Grünenthal Grant winners since 2004
Since 2004, the EFIC-Grünenthal Grant has funded 76 early-career pain research projects across Europe. Browse every winning project below, or read more about the EFIC-Grünenthal Grant and the current call.
Showing all 76 projects
20253 winners
Franziska Karl-SchöllerGermany
Innervated in-vitro skin model for postherpetic neuralgia
Ama KissiBelgium
Examining the impact of racialised stereotypes on diagnostic processes and decisions
Maddalena CominiUnited Kingdom
Developing an RNA-based therapy to treat neuropathic pain
20233 winners
Eleonora Maria CameroneItaly
Unveiling the impact of expectations on chronic pain: an ecological momentary assessment study
Lieve FilbrichBelgium
Multisensory interactions in pain: uncovering their effect on the motor system
Sampurna ChakrabartiGermany
Phenotype-driven neuro-proteomics to identify clinically relevant pain targets
20225 winners
Andrea PolliBelgium
Stress intolerance in patients with chronic widespread pain: are epigenetic mechanisms the answer to the mystery?
Roberta GualdaniBelgium
Transient receptor potential channels as novel targets for precision medicine in pain
Alberto González VillarPortugal
Evaluation of the analgesic effects of interpersonal and affective touch during the induction of secondary hyperalgesia and temporal summation of second pain
Cindy Germaine BoerNetherlands
Osteoarthritis, a gut feeling? The gut microbiome as a novel therapeutic target for osteoarthritis pain
Shafaq SikandarUnited Kingdom
Identifying a composite biomarker signature for chronic pain in early rheumatoid arthritis
20185 winners
Robin Bekrater-BodmannGermany
Prosthesis embodiment induced by multimodal sensory feedback: neural correlates and its potential for the treatment of phantom limb pain in lower-limb amputees
Alex ClarkUnited Kingdom
Investigating the pathophysiology of SPTLC1 mutations that cause painful hereditary sensory neuropathy type 1 using human iPSC-derived sensory neurons
Eleonora GalosiItaly
Disclosing mechanisms underlying painful diabetic neuropathy: a clinical and skin biopsy study with new emerging sensory biomarkers
Elena MakovacUnited Kingdom
What is the role of baroreceptors in descending pain modulation?
Jonas ZamanBelgium
The missing link between fear learning and pain levels: an investigation into sensory discrimination
20166 winners
Susanne BeckerGermany
Altered cognitive-emotional networks in chronic pain: the modulatory role of dopamine
Piero ChiacchiarettaItaly
Intersubject variability of brainstem modulation of endogenous analgesia and phenotypical characterisation of the nociceptive profile in humans
Joukje OostermanNetherlands
Disentangling pain and fatigue: a clinical and neurocognitive approach
Max Ortiz CatalanSweden
Motor execution as a treatment for phantom limb pain
Roi TreisterIsrael
Can training increase reporting accuracy and study power in human pain trials
Anne-Priscille TrouvinFrance
Peripheral and central effects of TNF in inflammatory pain: the RAPID study
20147 winners
Jamila AndohGermany
Circuits of pain memory in chronic pain patients
Christopher BrownUnited Kingdom
Markers of cortical reorganisation in complex regional pain syndrome
Franziska DenkUnited Kingdom
Epigenetics and pain: uncovering the mechanisms
Katarina ForkmannGermany
The attentional effects of peripheral and trigeminal pain in healthy subjects and patients with post-herpetic neuralgia
Flavia ManciniUnited Kingdom
Adaptive plasticity in the discrimination of noxious stimuli
Diana TortaBelgium
Cortical and peripheral beta oscillations in pain
Andrea TruiniItaly
Breaking dogmas: a neurophysiological and neuroimaging study showing that non-nociceptive Aβ-fibres mediate paroxysmal pain in healthy humans
20127 winners
Jordi Casanova-MollaSpain
Nociceptive nerve endings as a target for autoantibodies
Samar HatemBelgium
Visuospatial adaptation with prisms in stroke-related complex regional pain syndrome: acting on pain or neglect?
Lannie LigthartNetherlands
A longitudinal study on chronic pain, anxiety and depression
Ann MeuldersBelgium
Fear generalisation as a pathway to chronic widespread pain
Till SprengerGermany
Imaging grey and white matter pathology in central post-stroke pain with MRI
Elia ValentiniItaly
'Pain engrams': psychophysiological investigations of memory traces of nociceptive information
Katharina ZimmermannGermany
Defining peripheral and central pathophysiology and heritable susceptibility factors of ciguatera-associated cold allodynia
20108 winners
Dagny HolleGermany
Modulation of central cerebral pain processing by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) using ultra-high-field fMRI at 7 Tesla
Barbara NamerGermany
The contribution of axonal sensitisation to pain and hyperalgesia
Madusha PeirisUnited Kingdom
A novel human in vitro model of visceral pain
Ozren PolašekCroatia
Genome-wide association study of pressure pain threshold
Andreas SiegenthalerSwitzerland
Linking altered central pain processing and genetic polymorphism to drug efficacy in chronic low back pain
Stefano TamburinItaly
Pain sensory profiles in diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain
Nurcan ÜçeylerGermany
Cerebral neuronal activity in pain-related brain areas of patients with fibromyalgia and interleukin-4 deficiency (near-infrared spectroscopy)
Abraham ValkenburgNetherlands
Pain sensitivity of children with Down's syndrome: is it really different?
20095 winners
Luana CollocaItaly
Oxytocin and the placebo effect
Elspeth HuttonUnited Kingdom
Cutaneous neuroimmune interactions in the genesis of chronic neuropathic pain
Rebeccah SlaterUnited Kingdom
Measuring pain in the human infant brain
Tine VervoortBelgium
Pain demands the attention of others: parental detection, interpretation and responses to their child's pain
Gunnar WasnerGermany
The role of nociceptive afferents in neuropathic pain
20085 winners
Marijana BrasCroatia
The association of COMT polymorphisms with chronic low back pain in combat-related PTSD
Emanuel BroekeNetherlands
Electrophysiological changes in the brain associated with the induction of nociceptive long-term potentiation: an EEG study in healthy subjects
Kate LimerUnited Kingdom
The role of the pain-modulating DREAM pathway genes in chronic musculoskeletal pain
André MourauxBelgium
Steady-state evoked potentials to explore the cortical processes underlying the perception of pain
Gorazd SveticicSwitzerland
Determining the optimal drug regimen in individual patients with chronic pain
20075 winners
Thomas Graven-NielsenDenmark
Referred pain related to 'memory' in the nociceptive system
Valery LegrainBelgium
Behavioural and neurophysiological explorations of cognitive modulations of pain
Christian NetzerGermany
Comprehensive genetic analysis of the calcitonin gene-related peptide pathway in migraine with aura
Markus PlonerGermany
Gamma oscillations and human pain perception
Judy VeldhuijzenNetherlands
Functional imaging of sympathetic arousal in fibromyalgia
20065 winners
Ulrike BingelGermany
Imaging how pain interferes with information processing in other modalities
Liesbet GoubertBelgium
Facing their child's pain: the importance of parental empathy
Philip KrauseGermany
Fellowship: interhemispheric inhibition in patients with complex regional pain syndrome type I
Christian MaihöfnerGermany
Functional imaging of C-fibre-induced plasticity within the human brain
Carla NauGermany
Erythermalgia as a model disease to assess the contribution of Nav1.7 to small nerve fibre function and pain
20055 winners
Jens EllrichGermany
Long-term depression of human pain processing
Anthony R. HobsonUnited Kingdom
Can somatic allodynia be used as a biomarker of central sensitisation in a human model of visceral injury?
Helge KaschDenmark
Psychological intervention in chronic whiplash syndrome: a placebo-controlled randomised study
Christina LiossiUnited Kingdom
Training fellowship in experimental pain research methods (Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University)
Irene TraceyUnited Kingdom
High-resolution fMRI of anti- and pro-nociceptive processing in the human brainstem of patients with IBS and FM
20047 winners
Jeffrey RoelofsNetherlands
The role of self-discrepancies in patients with chronic pain
Maud Gaelle FrotFrance
Neurophysiology of pain perception in the human brain
Ron KupersDenmark
MRI study on the affective modulation of pain processing in the human brain
Predrag PetrovicSweden
Interaction between the endogenous opioid system in the brain and cognitive modulation of pain
Esther Pogatzki-ZahnGermany
Modulation of pain perception in uninjured and injured tissue in human volunteers
Audun StubhaugNorway
Genetic and environmental influences on pain sensitivity and regulation: psychological and pharmacological mechanisms
Stefaan Van DammeBelgium
Attention to pain in the crossmodal construction of space
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