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About APS

APS Announces its 2011
Future Leaders in Pain Research Grants Program

This year APS will again award at least two grants in the amount of $20,000 each to those research proposals demonstrating the greatest merit and potential for success. This grant program has been established to fund research projects of doctorally-prepared investigators who have not yet attained NIH RO1 level funding. The program’s intent is to encourage research in pain that will add to the body of knowledge, and to allow investigators to develop pilot data that will aid them in securing additional major grant funding.

Deadlines:

The application period has closed. Grant recipients will be announced in the fourth quarter.

Research Topics:

Proposed research projects should be in one of the following five areas of inquiry.

• Use of analgesic medications
• Unwanted effects of pain treatment related to analgesic therapy
• Neuropathic pain
• Mechanisms of pain
• Education and non-pharmacologic interventions or approaches to improve pain management.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for an APS Future Leaders in Pain Research Grant, applicants must be

• APS members
• Within six years of completing their doctoral degree, and
• Not yet been awarded major NIH or foundation grant funding.

Grant Budget and Grantee Obligations:

• Eligible grant expenses may include Principle Investigator salary but not institutional overhead.
• Grant Recipients are required to submit a one page written interim progress report to the committee.
• Grant Recipients are not eligible to apply for 2012 or 2013 Young Investigator Travel Awards.
• Grant Recipients will receive a $750 Travel Stipend to attend the 2012 APS Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI.
• Investigators are required to submit their final results to APS for abstract presentation at the 2013 Annual Meeting in accordance with the terms of the grant agreement.
• Indicating travel expenses to attend the 2013 APS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA is a required component of the Grant Budget.
• Grant Recipients are required to complete a survey every year for three years to report the outcomes of their research.

For additional information contact APS at 847-375-4715 or info@ampainsoc.org.

APS gratefully acknowledges Eli Lilly, Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Purdue Pharma L.P. for their generous funding of the grants program.

APS Future Leaders in Pain Research Grants Program Review Committee:
Patrick M. Dougherty, PhD, Chair
Karen O. Anderson, PhD
Jim Campbell, MD
Michael Caterina, PhD
C. Richard Chapman, PhD
Robert R. Edwards, MD PhD
Gerald F. Gebhart, PhD
Michael Gold, PhD
Janean Holden, PhD RN FAAN
Jianren Mao, MD PhD
Gayle Page, RN DNSc
Barbara Rakel, PhD RN
George Wilcox, PhD

Prior Grant Recipients