Initiative Highlights
NIH Pain Research Consortium: PRC encourages information sharing and collaborative research efforts across NIH in the field of pain research. Directors of participating NIH Institutes meet to:
- exchange information
- propose topics for workshops/conferences
- support program announcements in the field of pain research
These meetings help to provide coordination of pain research across all NIH components and ensure that results of NIH-sponsored pain research are widely communicated.
Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health-Specialized Centers of Research (SCORS): In conjunction with others, NIAMS is co-funding this research. As part of this initiative, a multidisciplinary SCOR is devoted to studying the mechanisms of chronic pain, with special focus on sex-related factors that influence pain and painful clinical conditions that show a high prevalence in women. This center will help apply basic knowledge to the study of persistent pain in humans, and ultimately to developing new ways to diagnose and treat these conditions in the general population.The Management of Chronic Pain: NIAMS is co-sponsoring an announcement for grants to study management of chronic pain across the lifespan. It has been estimated that 4 out of every 10 people with moderate to severe pain do not get enough relief for chronic pain. The goal is to encourage research to find:- effective interventions
- effective drug and nondrug treatments
- assessment tools
- management strategies for pain
