PRICE runs two NIH-funded postdoctoral training programs. They are worth understanding as a pair, because the difference between them says something about where pain research is going.
IMPART (T32)
Funded by the National Institute on Aging through a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, award 5T32AG049673. Directed by Dr. Roger Fillingim and Dr. Yenisel Cruz-Almeida. Two years of funding.
IMPART focuses on pain and aging, and deliberately recruits across the full translational continuum — basic scientists, human mechanistic researchers, clinical trialists, and epidemiological and implementation researchers all in the same program. Mentor interests include age-related pain modulation, interactions between pain and cognitive function, pain and mobility, osteoarthritis, brain imaging, clinical interventions, and resilience.
UF PAIN TEAM (T90/R90)
Partnerships Across Interdisciplinary Networks: Training through Engineering, Epidemiology & Addiction Medicine. NIH-funded. Directed by Dr. Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, with Dr. Kyle D. Allen as Associate Director and Rachel Powers as Administrative Director.
This program takes the interdisciplinary premise further. It explicitly recruits from what it calls traditional backgrounds — neuroscience, psychology, physical therapy, nursing — and non-traditional ones: engineering, epidemiology, addiction medicine, and bioinformatics.
Eligibility differs between the two mechanisms. T90 positions require US citizenship, non-citizen national status, or permanent residency. R90 positions are for non-citizens currently residing in the US who intend to pursue careers in clinical pain research here. Both require a doctoral degree — PhD, MD, DMD, DDS, or DVM — before appointment.
Why the second program exists
The bet embedded in UF PAIN TEAM is that the next generation of pain advances will not come only from people trained in pain. It will come from engineers who model tissue loading, epidemiologists who work at population scale, addiction medicine specialists who understand what opioid policy actually did to patients, and bioinformaticians who can handle the data volumes modern studies generate.
Training those people together, rather than hoping they collaborate later, is the whole idea.
Both programs accept applications through this site. If you hold a doctorate and this describes work you want to do, the application pages are under Training and Education.
What we study:
- Pain and Aging
- Chronic Pain Risk Factors
- Pain and the Brain
- Musculoskeletal Pain
- Pain and Exercise
- Non-Medical Treatment of Pain
Prefer to talk to a person? Call 352-273-5967 or email PRICE-CTSI@ufl.edu.
UF Study ID IRB201400126
References
- PRICE Research Registry recruitment materials, UF Study ID IRB201400126. IRB-approved; supplied by site owner. https://is.gd/PRICE