APS Press Room
| For immediate release May 3, 2006 |
Contact: Chuck Weber (847) 705-1802 |
AMERICAN PAIN SOCIETY ANNOUNCES FUTURE LEADERS IN PAIN SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS
SAN ANTONIO, May 3, 2006 – The American Pain Society (APS) announced today the first three winners of its new Future Leaders in Pain small research grant program. Funded by a $50,000 grant from Endo Pharmaceuticals, the program is designed to recognize and support scientific research by APS members who were doctorally prepared, within six years of their terminal degree, and had not been awarded major grant funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Thirty-six eligible applications were reviewed in several categories of research, such as analgesic medications, neuropathic pain, pain mechanisms and nonpharmacologic interventions. Three applicants were chosen by the APS review committee for individual $16,000 grants. They are:
- Barbara A. Hastie, PhD, MA, University of Florida College of Dentistry, for her research proposal: Ethnic Differences in Acute Pain and Analgesic Side Effects.
- Robert R. Edwards, PhD, MSPG, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, for: Individual Differences in Pain Modulation as a Predictor of Long-term Pain and Analgesic Use in Women Following Surgical Management of Breast Cancer.
- Susan G. Dorsey, PhD, MS, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Nursing, for: Development of a Mouse Model of HIV Therapy-Induced Painful Peripheral Neuropathy.