Gith Noes-Holt receives the Elite Research Travel Grant of DKK 200,000
The Elite Research Travel Grant helps very talented PhD students to perform longer-term studies in some of the best research environments in the world. The Ministry of Higher Education and Science annually distributes up to 20 Elite Research travel grants.
Gith Noes-Holt is a PhD Student in the Toft Sørensen Lab. She has received the travel grant for her PhD project The pathways and neuronal subtypes controlling neuropathic pain.
Chronic Pain
In her PhD project, she researches the use of gene therapy as a new treatment option for chronic pain. Among other things, she investigates which nerve cells and nerve pathways are important to hit with her gene therapy, which has been shown to be extremely effective against chronic pain in her trials. "The better we are at hitting the cells that need treatment, the less likely it is to have side effects", Gith explains.
Heidelberg Pain Consortium
The EliteForsk travel scholarship allows Gith to conduct a research stay in the world-leading pain research laboratory Heidelberg Pain Consortium lead by Prof. Rohini Kuner in Germany. Here she will learn more about what chronic pain is and how to measure it in the laboratory. She will try to find out how precisely in the nervous system one should treat with our gene therapy to relieve chronic pain. "I want to learn the latest methods in preclinical pain research and gain a better understanding of the field - knowledge that I can bring home to Denmark."
Read the full article on Gith's project and the travel grant here (in Danish).