Awards
Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain
The RAF and APS may award two grants in the amount of $50,000 annually, for a period of up to three years.
2013 Recipients
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Rebecca Seal, PhD Mechanical Pain Circuits in the Dorsal Horn: A Role of VGLUT3 |
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Reza Sharif Naeini, PhD Role of Parvalbumin Neurons in the Dorsal Horn Pain Circuits |
Past Award Recipients
2012
Sarah Ross, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"Investigating the Neural Circuits of Itch and Pain"
Michael Jankowski, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"Molecular Mechanisms of Muscoloskeletal Pain after Ischemic Tissue Injury"
2011
Edgar Romero-Sandoval, MD PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
“Spinal Cord Mechanisms In The Resolution Of Postoperative Pain”
Yuan-Xiang Tao, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Discovery of A Large Native Non-Coding RNA And Its Involvement In Neuropathic Pain”
2010
Diana Bautista, PhD
University of California Berkeley
“Molecular Mechanisms of Somatosensory Mechanotransduction”
Seena Ajit, PhD
Drexel University College of Medicine
“MicroRNA Regulation and Its Utility as Biomarkers in Neuropathic Pain”
2009
Theodore J. Price, PhD
University of Arizona Medical School
"Translations Regulation as a Novel Paradigm for Understanding Nociceptor Sensitization and Developing Analgesic Targets"
Steven A. Prescott, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
"Pain Processing by Neural Networks: A Critical Link between the Molecular and Perceptual Changes"