Winners
2022
Iris Coppieters, PhD (Belgium) Unraveling the microbiota-gut-brain signalling mechanisms underlying chronic low back pain phenotypes: a novel therapeutic target?
Hadas Nahman-Averbuch, PhD (U.S.) Hormonal mechanisms of puberty related alterations in pain sensitivity
2021
Sarah Luthy, MD, Cincinattic Children's Hosptial Medical Center (USA): "Multidimensional Acute Pain Assessment in Children with Severe Neurological Impairment"
Kaya Peerdeman, PhD, Leiden University (Netherlands): "Pain, should you expect the best or worst?"
2020
Paulino Barragan-Iglesias, PhD, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (Mexico): "Deciphering mechanisms underlying virus-evoked painful neuropathies"
Jerry Kalangara, MD, PhD, Emory University and Atlanta VA Health Care System (USA): "Functional evaluation of humoral immunity in a real-world cohort of opioid users."
2019
Amanda Stone, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Project (USA): "The influence of childhood chronic pain history on parenting and pain-related risk in offspring: A longitudinal cohort study"
Simple Futarmal Kothari, PhD, Aarhus University Project (Denmark): “From pain in the face to perceptual distortion: Exploring mechanisms and novel treatment strategies”
Carolina Beraldo Meloto, PhD, McGill University Project (Canada): “A role for bisphenol-A in chronic pain: Study in humans and mice”
2018
Candice Paulsen, PhD, Yale University (USA). Project: “Uncovering the regulation of TRPA1 by irritants and proteins”
Amaury Francois, PhD, Université de Montpellier (France). Project: : “Contribution of C-LTMRs and Insular cortex to hedonic touch and the development of anxiety and depressive disorders associated with chronic pain”
2017
Lisa Carlesso, PhD, Université de Montréal (Canada) Project: Pain Phenotyping of People with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Latent Profile Analysis with relationships to function, physical performance and healthcare utilization
Jennifer Deuis, PhD The University of Queensland (Australia) Project: Developing novel treatment approaches for the rare genetic disease inherited erythromelalgia
Cornelius Groenewald, PhD, Seattle Children's Hospital and University of Washington (United States) Project: Phenotype and genotype correlates underlying the temporal relationship between adolescent chronic pain and prescription opioid misuse in adulthood
Maria Maiaru, PhD, University College London (United Kingdom) Project: Could FKBP51 control chronic pain via modulation of the autophagic pathways?
Marc Martel, PhD, McGill University (Canada) Project: Biological and psychological determinants of opioid craving among chronic pain patients prescribed opioid therapy
Massieh Moayedi, PhD, University of Toronto (Canada) Project: A neurocomputational investigation of pain-cognition interactions
2016
Rachel Miller, PhD, Rush University Medical Center (USA) Project: A Functional Imaging Approach to Probe the Role of Mechanosensory Neurons in Experimental Osteoarthritis Knee Pain
Hugues Petitjean, PhD, McGill University (Canada) Project: Investigations of pruning of inhibitory synaptic contacts onto PKCgamma dorsal horn neurons after nerve injury
Dimitiri Van Ryckeghem, PhD, Ghent University (Belgium) Project: Attention bias for pain: A dynamic and contextual approach
2015
Line Caes, PhD, NUI Galway (Ireland) Project: Parent-child mutual interactions during preschoolers' everyday pain experiences: a pilot study
Hugo Leite-Almeida, PhD, ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal) Project: Impulsive decision-making in rats with chronic neuropathic pain – the role of accumbal dopaminergic (dys)function
Niamh Moloney, PhD, Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia) Project: Predicting the development of persistent pain after breast cancer treatment
Mathieu Roy, PhD, PERFORM Center, Concordia University, Montreal (Canada) Project: No pain, no gain: a neuroimaging investigation of the cerebral mechanisms underlying making decisions between pain avoidance and reward seeking
Annina Schmid, PhD Oxford University, Oxford (United Kingdom) Project: A novel approach to understanding injury and regeneration in patients with entrapment neuropathies
Yi Ye, PhD, New York University, New York (USA) Project: Resolvin D2 as a novel therapy for head and neck cancer progression and pain
2014
Margarita Calvo Bascunan, PhD (Chile) Project: Investigating a novel mechanism of hypersensitivity induced by exclusive damage to epidermal nerve fiber: neuropathic pain in Epidermolysis Bullosa
Robert Ernest Sorge, PhD (USA) Project: The effect of diet and dietary intervention on behavioral and physiological indices of pain in rats
Michael E. Hildebrand, PhD (Canada) Project: Spinal cord ion channels in acute and chronic pain signaling
Chi Tonglien Viet, PhD (USA) Project: Mechanisms of OPRM1 Regulation in Head and Neck Cancer Pain
Sara Marinelli, PhD (Italy) Project: Botulinum Neurotoxin type A as pharmacological tool for controlling pain and inflammation in murine model of spinal contusion: effects on spinal cord regeneration
Franziska Denk, PhD (UK) Project: Investigating the role of DNA methyltransferases in persistent pain using a transgenic approach
Saad Nagi, PhD (Australia) Project: Role of C-tactile Fibers in Pain Processing: Experimental and Clinical Investigations
Ewan St. John Smith, PhD (UK) Project: Determining the impact of tissue acidosis on nociceptor excitability in inflammatory pain
2013
Jennifer Gibbs, PhD (USA) Project: TRPM8 receptor expression and function in afferents of the dental pulp
Isabel Martins, PhD (Portugal) Project: Opioid-induced hyperalgesia: unravelling the role of a pain facilitatory area of the brain
Marco Loggia, PhD (USA) Project: An in-vivo investigation of brain inflammation in fibromyalgia with integrated PET/MR imaging
Djane Duarte, PhD (Brazil) Project: Targeting peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors-gamma (PPARy) for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy treatment
2012
Alexandre Charlet, PhD (Switzerland) Project: Involvement of astrocytes in the endogenous oxytocin modification of amygdala microcircuits
Michael Jankowski, PhD (USA) Project: Peripheral mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain after ischemic tissue injury
Anna Andreou, PhD (UK) Project: Hypothalamic modulation of the sensory thalamus in migraine
Fabio Godinho, PhD (Brazil) Project: Compassional modulation of pain in Parkinson’s disease patients: the effect of bilateral pallidothalamic tractotomy on compassional pain modulation and the role of subthalamic nucleus on empathy to pain. A behavioral, neurophysiological and neurosurgical study
Alessandro Capuano, PhD (Italy) Project: Familial aggregation of putative biomarkers of migraine: A family- based pilot stud
Kevin Woo, PhD (Canada) Project: Pain and delayed wound healing: the mediating effect of psychological stress and inflammatory response
Martin Diers, PhD (Germany) Project: Seeing what you feel behind: neuronal correlates of seeing painful stimulation
Andreas Leffler, PhD (Germany) Project: Targeting TRP-channels other than TRPV1 for topical analgesia by induction of neurotoxicity
2011
Thiago Cunha, PhD (Brazil) Project: Investigation of the role of DAMPs/pattern recognition receptors in the development of chronic pain
Lorenzo Fabrizi, PhD (UK) Project: A multimodal approach to the study of pain in nonverbal individuals
Clas Linnman, PhD (USA) Project: Do mechanisms for functional recruitment of the periaqueductal gray differ between men and women with interictal migraine?
Tine Vervoort, PhD (Belgium) Project: Parental attentional processing of and behavioral responses to their child's pain
Irina Vetter, PhD (Australia) Project: Development of a mouse model of ciguatoxin-induced cold allodynia to dissect the underlying mechanisms of cold pain
2010
Michael Boettger, MD (Germany) Project: Blood-induced arthritis as a model for hyperalgesia – a translational approach to examine the underlying mechanisms of joint pain in hemophilia
Luana Colloca, PhD (USA) Project: The potential role on placebo analgesia of the production of OXT (oxytocin) in the brain will be investigated by using a behavioral and pharmacological OXT agonist and antagonist approach
Matilde Cordero-Erausquin, PhD (France) Project: Functional connectivity of spinal cholinergic interneurons: a keystone for cholinergic analgesia
André Mouraux, PhD (Belgium) Project: Steady-state evoked potentials will be used to explore the cortical processing of nociceptive input
Toru Taguchi, DSc (Japan) Project: Looking at the fascia not only as supportive tissue, but also as a sensory organ that originates nociceptive information, this research will investigate the peripheral thin-fiber afferents with fascia receptive fields
2009
Marucia Chacur, PhD (Brazil) Project: Muscle Pain: A behavioral and electrophysiological model
Durga Mohapatra, PhD (USA) Project: Distinct Chemokine modulation of TRPV1 in prostate cancer pain
Otilia Obreja, PhD (Germany) Project: Axonal excitability in nociceptors
Petra Schweinhardt, PhD (Germany) Project: The effects of central D2-receptor blockade on pain sensitivity and pain modulatory capacity in male and female volunteers
Camilla Svensson, PhD (Sweden) Project: Inflammatory and neuropathic pain – role of spinal mTOR
2007
Pablo Brumovsky, MD, PhD (USA) Project: Vesicular glutamate transporters and chronic visceral pain
David Seminowicz, PhD (Canada) Project: The effects of chronic pain on functional and structural brain networks
Till Sprenger, Dr. Med (Germany) Project: Lesion mapping and somatosensory patterns in patients suffering from thalamic pain
Stefaan Van Damme, PhD (Belgium) Project: The role of goal pursuit in maladaptive responses to pain
Suellen Walker, PhD (UK) Project: Repeated surgery and pain: early life effects
