Two SFB1158 Investigators win prestigious ERC Advanced Grants
Prof. Dr Rohini Kuner and Prof. Dr. Herta Flor and have been awarded with highly prestigious and valuable funding from the European Research Council (ERC).
Rohini Kuner is a renowned neuropharmacologist and with her research in the context of the ERC project “Uncovering the Cortical Cellular Basis of Specificity and Chronicity of Pain” (PAIN ENSEMBLES), she explores the question of which neuronal ensembles – coactive neurons intermingled in networks – contribute to the specificity and chronicity of pain.
Prof. Dr. Herta Flor is a distinguished neuropsychologist and clinical psychologist and her ERC project “A Mechanism-based Approach to the Prevention of Chronic Pain and its Comorbid Mental Disorders” (MECHPAIN) concentrates on chronic pain which typically goes hand in hand with mental disorders like depression or states of anxiety and, despite enormous efforts by the health system, is still hard to treat.
The awards total to 4.9 million euros.
Press release of Heidelberg University (in English)