Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain

The Rita Allen Foundation and the American Pain Society may award two grants in the amount of $50,000 annually, for a period of up to three years.

2018

Helen C. Lai, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Understanding the molecular and developmental basis of painlessness

Candice E. Paulsen, PhD
Yale University
Uncovering the regulation of TRPA1 by irritants, cofactors, and proteins

2017

Arkady Khoutorsky, PhD
McGill University
Extracellular matrix-mediated spinal cord plasticity in neuropathic pain

Kyle Baumbauer, PhD
University of Connecticut
Targeting ASIC3 for disruption of nociceptor sensitization following spinal cord injury

2016

Steve Davidson, PhD
University of Cincinnati
Thalamo-limbic circuit control of pain

Katherine Hanlon, PhD
University of New England
DRG macrophages: function and impact on nociception

2015

Robert Sorge, PhD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Immune System Modulation of Pain via Diet

Yi Ye, PhD
New York University
The Role of Schwann Cells in Neural Invasion and Associated Cancer Pain

2014

Gregory Scherrer, PhD PharmD
Stanford University
Molecular Mechanisms of Opioid-Induced Analgesia, Tolerance and Hyperalgesia

Tuan Trang, PhD
The University of Calgary
The Spinal Determinants of Arthritis Pain: Role of Microglia and P2X7 Receptors

2013

Rebecca Seal, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Mechanical Pain Circuits in the Dorsal Horn: A Role of VGLUT3

Reza Sharif Naeini, PhD
McGill University
Role of Parvalbumin Neurons in the Dorsal Horn Pain Circuits

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