Doreen Balß
mctn@remove-this.medma.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone: +49 621/383-1176

Claudia Koch
mctn@remove-this.medma.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone: +49 621/383-2885

MCTN members welcome applications by talented and motivated MD and PhD students and PostDocs. If you are interested, please contact the respective group leader directly.

Subproject C4 of GRK 2350 is seeking a PhD candidate for a 3-year thesis project on April 2021 to March 2024

https://www.grk2350.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123&Itemid=352

The Impact of Early Social Adversity on the Development of Myofascial Low Back Pain – an Animal Experimental Study

Stress is known to induce or enhance chronic low-back pain. Recent animal experiments indicate that stress itself is able to sensitize nociceptive neurons in the spinal cord. The planned doctoral projects will investigate and compare the impact of ESA and stress on the sensitization process of these neurons in an animal model of myofascial low back pain. Furthermore, experimental interventions will be performed to neutralise or reduce the impact of ESA and stress on the sensitization process of spinal cord dorsal horn neurons.

Principal Investigators: R.-D. Treede, R. Spanagel