This $242,061 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) establishes an interdisciplinary clinical pain research training program at Mass General Brigham (MGB) in Boston. The program will support 8-12 postdoctoral fellows over 5 years, providing protected research time and dedicated training to expand the pool of early-career investigators capable of launching successful clinical...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $703,426 to Stanford University to establish an interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program in clinical pain research focused on maternal and childhood pain. The 5-year program aims to train the next generation of diverse scientific leaders in this field by providing mentorship, research opportunities, and career development support...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $730,668 to Stanford University over a 5-year period starting September 1, 2024. The funding will support an interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program in clinical pain research, with a focus on maternal and childhood pain. The program aims to train the next generation of diverse scientific leaders in this field by providing mentorship,...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is focused on developing novel methods for selectively stimulating nociceptors (pain receptors) and measuring the brain's nociceptive-specific response in both healthy individuals and those with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia. The $2,314,276 award to Emory University will fund the creation of a new...
The University of Florida was awarded a $362,689 Project Grant by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The award titled "University of Florida Partnerships Across Interdisciplinary Networks: Training through Engineering, Epidemiology & Addiction Medicine (UF PAIN TEAM)" will establish an interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program to develop the next generation of independent...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $290,312 to The Washington University in St. Louis to develop a postdoctoral training program called "Promoting Excellence through Pain and Addiction Research Enhancement (PREPARE)". The PREPARE program aims to recruit and train early career investigators to conduct clinical research on the intersection of...
This $5,037,022 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will support the development of novel single-cell technologies called "Raman2omics" to map pain-associated genes and cells across the lifespan. Funded under the Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs, the grant to the Massachusetts General Hospital aims to apply Raman2omics to systematically investigate genes and cells associated with postoperative pain...
This $2,370,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to develop advanced human pluripotent stem cell (HPSC) tools to create comprehensive, region-specific models for studying pain circuitry. The award to Trustees of Tufts College (Tufts University) supports three main objectives: 1) Developing scalable methods to generate region-specific sensory neurons and...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $515,088 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to the Washington University in St. Louis. The grant, titled "Promoting Excellence through Pain and Addiction Research Enhancement (PREPARE)", aims to recruit and train 5 postdoctoral fellows (4 T90, 1 R90) to conduct mechanistically-based clinical research on the intersection of chronic pain and substance use disorders (SUD). The program will...
This federal Project Grant award of $129,113 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, supports the SPARQ: Summer Program to Advance Research and Equity in Pain and Neurological Health at Seattle Children's Hospital. The 9-week program aims to expose 10 undergraduate students per year to rigorous, interdisciplinary pain and neuroscience research, with a...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $351,097 was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant was awarded under the NIH's Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to establish a rigorous and supportive interdisciplinary training program in clinical pain research at Mass General Brigham (MGB) in Boston.
The program will support a diverse pool of 8 postdoctoral fellows for 2-3 years, with the goal of expanding and enhancing the pool of early career stage investigators capable of launching and maintaining successful careers in clinical pain research. The program provides protected research time, dedicated training, and a cohort-based learning experience, along with tailored coursework and training in responsible conduct of research. The 12 diverse mentors leading the program have been selected based on their excellence in clinical pain research and strong mentorship track records, covering fields such as psychology, neurology, neuroscience, psychiatry, and epidemiology.