Funding source: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Title: HHMI Investigator Program Type: HHMI seeks to appoint up to 30 new biomedical researchers in the US through a national open competition Application due date: 13 June 2012
Funding source: US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Title: PAR-10-190, 191, 192: Vulvodynia – Systematic Epidemiologic, Etiologic or Therapeutic Studies
Funding source: US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Title: PAR-10-204: NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Competitive Revisions for Studies Focused on Neuropathic Pain or Neural Plasticity to Promote Collaborative Pain Research
Funding source: US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Title: PA-09-193, 194, 195: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Management of Pain in Aging: from Molecular to Clinical
Type: R01,R21,R03 Opening date: September 2009 Expiration date: September 2012
Funding source: US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Title: PA-10-006, 007, 008: Mechanisms, Models, Measurement, & Management in Pain Research
Opening date: September 2010 Expiration date: 8 September 2013
Funding source: US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Title: PAR-10-163: Preliminary Clinical Studies in Preparation for Large Interventional Trials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Therapies
Letters of intent due dates: 12 September 2011, 12 September 2012, 12 September 2013
Funding source: US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Title: PA-10-209, 210: Biology of Manual Therapies Type: R01, R21 Opening date: September 2010 Expiration date: 8 January 2014
For a cache of seminar videos on pain research, check out the website of the Program in Pain Research, Education & Policy (PREP Program) at Tufts University School of Medicine.
In one recent seminar, Yoram Shir of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, spoke about a factor rarely considered in pain studies: food. He shared his findings on how diet affects pain and analgesia. Do you know what is in your animals' chow? If not, you may want to listen to what Shir had to say.
LATEST NEWS
Scads of Satellite Symposia
In conjunction with the 14th World Congress on Pain of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) in Milan, Italy, IASP members and Special Interest Groups will hold meetings on
23-26 August 2012.
A partial list of the topics to be covered:
- Cannabinoids and Pain
- Pain Genetics Research
- Reliable Evidence in Pain Therapy
- Challenging Pediatric Pain Syndromes
- Neuropathic Itch
- Study Design, Analysis and Reporting
(Non-Human Species)