AARHUS UNIVERSITY & AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL - DANISH PAIN RESEARCH CENTER

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The Danish Pain Research Center (DPRC) is a pain research center, located at Aarhus University Hospital. The Center was founded in 1994 as a university-based clinical research unit. The center is focusing on both acute and chronic pain, including neuropathic pain and experimental pain models.

 

Current research areas include:

• Painful diabetic polyneuropathy

• Painful chemotherapy-induced neuropathy

• Postoperative pain

• Phantom pain

• Peripheral nerve injury pain

• Spinal cord injury pain

• Central post-stroke pain

• Complex regional pain syndrome

• Pharmacotherapy

• Experimental pain models

• Thermal sensory assessments

 

The center has fully equipped laboratories to perform:

• Pharmacology and neurology studies

• Quantitative sensory testing

• Cornea confocal microscopy

• Autonomic testing

• Skin biopsy (intra-epidermal nerve fiber density)

• Neurophysiological examinations

• Clinical observations

 

The staff includes academic staff, PhD students, and administrative and technical staff. DPRC has extensive experience within clinical trials.