The Rita Allen Foundation (RAF) and American Pain Society (APS) announce the 2013 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 to those research proposals demonstrating the greatest merit and potential for success.
Eligible candidates will have completed their training and provided persuasive evidence of distinguished achievement or extraordinary promise in basic science research in pain. Candidates should be in the early stages of their career with an appointment at faculty level. The entire award is to be allocated to projects specifically chosen by the recipient. Overhead is not supported.
Research Topics
Proposed research projects should be directed towards the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to the development of new analgesics for the management of pain due to terminal illness.
Deadlines
Applications may be submitted online and will be due by midnight Eastern Time on February 1, 2013. Grant awards will be announced in April of 2013 and funds will be awarded for the initial twelve month grant period upon satisfactory execution of the grant agreement between the RAF and the grant recipient's institution. For any questions regarding the application please see the detailed Program Guidelines.
General Information
The application must include a written proposal in English of no more than six pages, including a page of no more than 20 references, and curriculum vitae. The candidate's application must include a letter of support from the Department Chair or Institute Head demonstrating strong support for the candidate's proposed research and career development. Two other required letters of support are from the candidate's PhD advisor, and a mentor who has impacted the candidate's research. The candidate will provide the email contact information for the individuals requested to submit letters of support and each individual will be contacted by the online system requesting that their letters be uploaded directly into the candidate's application. The candidate should list current and pending research support from all sources.
Eligibility:
To be eligible for the Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain the applicant:
Grant Budget and Grantee Obligations:
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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"
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”
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”
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"