Postoperative skeletal pain: Development of non-opioid treatment strategies
Jasper Steverink
What was your PhD about?
My research focused on pain after skeletal surgery. Why is skeletal surgery so painful, how effective is its current opioid-based treatment, and can pain treatment be improved through non-opioid analgesics? To this end, a sustained release formulation of bupivacaine was developed and tested for safety and efficacy in a preclinical setting.
What is your fondest memory of your time at RMU?
Karaoke at the TGIF-borrel!
What are you going to do next?
Continue in research; the goal is to bring the sustained release formulation to the patient!