Most of the applications were of very high standard and the Committee

decided to support 8 research projects (grants of 25,000 € each).

The winners are:

• Dagny HOLLE, Germany
  Modulation of central cerebral pain processing by transcranial direct current
  stimulation (tDCS) using ultra-high field functional magnetic resonance
  imaging (fMRI) at 7 Tesla.
• Barbara NAMER, Germany
  The contribution of axonal sensitization to pain and hyperalgesia.
• Madusha PEIRIS, United Kingdom
  A Novel Human In Vitro Model of Visceral Pain.
• Ozren POLAŠEK, Croatia
  Genome-wide association study of pressure pain threshold – a step forward to
  uncovering genes underlying pain sensation.
• Andreas SIEGENTHALER, Switzerland
  Linking altered central pain processing and genetic polymorphism to drug
  efficacy in chronic low back pain.
• Stefano TAMBURIN, Italy
  Pain Sensory Profiles in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain.
• Nurcan ÜÇEYLER, Germany
  Investigation of the cerebral neuronal activity in pain-related brain areas of
  patients with fibromyalgia syndrome and interleukin-4 deficiency using nearinfrared
  spectroscopy.
• Abraham VALKENBURG, Netherlands
  Pain sensitivity of children with Down’s syndrome: Is it really different?

The winners will officially be informed by e-mail by the E-G-G Administration in the

next few days and their projects will be published on the web site soon.

The presentation of Award Winners will be arranged at the occasion of the Opening

Ceremony of the EFIC® Congress ‘PAIN IN EUROPE VII’, taking place in Hamburg,

Germany from 21st – 24th September 2011.

We would like to thank all applicants for their highly interesting projects, but

unfortunately it was not possible to support all of them.

The next call for applications for the 2012 EFIC Grünenthal Grant will be announced

by end of this year.