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Inna Belfer, Ph.D.
April 5, 2023 Pain is one of societys greatest health burdens across America and the world. One hundred million Americans suffer from chronic pain alone, and treatment is often inadequate or, at its worst, harmful. As yet, there is no objective way to measure pain in ways analogous to the independent measures for temperature or immune response, for example. Pain is an individual,subjectiveexperience that is shaped by a persons unique biology, psychology, and social and physical environments. The highly personal and contextual nature of pain necessitates a patient-centered,whole personapproach to pain management that takes into account these other factors.  The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks to identify an outstandingStaff Scientist 1to be thefacility head to lead activities of the newNIH Pain Research Center (PRC). The PRC is part of theNCCIH Division of Intramural Research (DIR), which conducts basic, translational, and clinical research to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of pain processing and modulation of pain. Applications will be accepted beginningApril 1, 2023, andmust be received by 11:59 p.m. ET onMonday, May 1, 2023,for consideration in the review period. Review of applications will begin on or aboutMay 1, 2023. |
Resources for Researchers Upcoming Events  April 28, 2023, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET; Virtual This is the second of a two-part Hot Topic Webinar Series, and will highlight emerging trends in natural products research. Experts in the natural products field will touch on topics in organic structure analysis, metabologenomics, venomics, high-throughput phenotypic screening, electron microscopy techniques, host microbe interactions, and structural biology. Part One took place on March 6, and covered natural product research resources enabling discovery and development of natural products as lead compounds and research tools.Register now. |
May 12, 2023 The next Advisory Council meeting will take place on May 12, 2023. An agenda will be posted soon. The Open Session will be available for viewing via NIH Videocast. May 25, 2023, 12 noon-1:15 p.m. ET. Margaret Kuklinski, Ph.D., will present a virtual lecture on her research focused on promoting positive developmental outcomes and preventing drug use and antisocial behavior through community-based and family-focused intervention. Dr. Kuklinski is director, Social Development Research Group; acting director, Center for Communities That Care Endowed; and associate professor, Prevention in Social Work, School of Social Work, University of Washington (Seattle, WA). June 15, 2023, 12 noon-1:15 p.m. ET Tonya M. Palermo, Ph.D., will present a virtual lecture on her research on treatment and prevention of pediatric pain. Dr. Palermo is professor and vice chair for research, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Hughes M. and Katherine Blake Endowed Professor in Health Psychology; adjunct professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Washington; and associate director, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute (Seattle, WA). Please check back soon for more information by visiting our Events page. June 14, 2023, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET; Virtual We invite you to join us for a technical assistance webinar to learn more aboutRFA-AT-24-001, a cooperative agreement titled, Research Network to Promote Multidisciplinary Mechanistic and Translational Studies of Sickle Cell Disease Pain (U24, Clinical Trial Option). This webinar is provided for potential applicants that want to learn more details about this exciting and unique notice of funding opportunity focusing on sickle cell disease and associated pain. During the webinar you will hear from NCCIH program and review staff about important application considerations and review requirements. The latter portion of the webinar is entirely devoted to answering applicant questions. Attending this technical assistance webinar is not a requirement for submission to this notice of funding opportunity. Theapplication deadline is October 1, 2023.Register now. In case you missed it... You can watch the archive ofFlourishing and Emotional Well-Being by Dr. Tyler VanderWeele,director, Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University, which presented concepts, definitions, and measures of both flourishing and emotional well-being and presented empirical evidence showing that emotional well-being is an important determinant of other aspects of flourishing. View the video. |
