In collaboration with the UF Institute on Aging, PRICE has been awarded a $1.2 million postdoctoral training grant to support the Integrative and Multidisciplinary Pain and Aging Research Training (IMPART) Program. This NIA-funded program will support four postdoctoral fellows with a broad range of research interests in pain and aging.
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, Recently a federal advisory group released a draft version of its National Pain Strategy (see attached), which seeks to redefine the way pain is perceived and treated in the U.S. The strategy ultimately derives from a mandate in the…
Dear Colleagues: At this time I would like to announce our first meeting of Pain Connections for 2015. I look forward to seeing everyone back again for what promises to be another interesting presentation and opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues!! At the June meeting the speaker will…
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, The term “epigenetics” was originally coined to describe a conceptual solution to a phenomenon that arises as a fundamental consideration of developmental biology (Waddington, 1942). Some years later the field of epigenetics came to be known as the branch…
Greetings, The next meeting of Pain Journal Club is scheduled for Tuesday April 14th (D7-11; 11:30-1:00). Cancer pain is a common yet often overlooked aspect of cancer management, partly due to the focus of cancer removal/treatment. The mechanisms underlying this pain are unclear and further complicated by the multiple modalities…
May 1, 2015, Deadline We would like to invite poster submissions for Pain Research Day 2015. All trainees and investigators are invited to submit abstracts for pain-related research to be presented as posters at Pain Research Day. New submissions as well as posters that have been presented at other national…
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings! The descending control of pain was a major focus of research in the 1970’s and 80’s and throughout history has been used to explain such things as acupuncture analgesia, the placebo effect, the mechanism of antidepressant drugs and deep…
PRICE Director and UFCD Distinguished Professor, Dr. Roger Fillingim, recently received a MERIT Award from the National Institute on Aging. According to the NIA, MERIT Awards are intended “to provide long-term grant support to investigators whose research competence and productivity are distinctly superior and who are highly likely to continue…
Over 30 posters were presented at the 2015 Pain Research Day. The keynote speaker was by Dr. Sean Mackey, Redlich Professor of Anesthesia & Pain Management and Chief, Division of Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
