When asked about how her family background has influenced her career, Nanna Brix Finnerup, Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark) and Chair of the Danish Pain Research Center (Aarhus), cites the qualities of honesty and integrity, which she learned from her parents and brings into her research. She comments that her parents taught her “to have a strong sense of responsibility and to do the right thing, and I think that’s very important in research…We are under a lot of pressure to publish, but I think we have to remember that what we really want to find is the truth”.