Great honor for Dr. Jana Aulenkamp: At the annual congress of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI), she received the Sintetica Research Fellowship 2024. The fellowship supports outstanding research projects in the fields of regional anesthesia and pain medicine and is endowed with 15,000 euros.
Festive award ceremony: Dr. Jana Aulenkamp received the Sintetica Research Fellowship 2024 at the annual congress of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. Pictured from left to right: DGAI President Prof. Dr. Benedikt Pannen, Dr. Jana Aulenkamp, Dr. Wilfried Dierckes from Sintetica GmbH and Congress President Prof. Dr. Carla Nau
Dr. Aulenkamp works as anaesthetist at Essen University Hospital and is a clinician scientist in project A04, researching the influence of treatment expectations on postoperative pain.
The research grant, donated by the Münster-based company Sintetica GmbH, is in particular in recognition of her work “Elucidating and Assessing Modality-Specific Postoperative Pain”. The aim of her work is to be able to better assess pain after operations on internal (“visceral-innervated”) organs and to find out what distinguishes it from external (“somatic”) pain. In this way, a basis for the characterization of such pain is to be created in order to be able to better treat postoperative pain individually in the future.