Chronic pain is a major public health problem, and treatments are limited. More research is needed to fully understand how acute pain evolves into chronic pain, and who will transition from acute to chronic pain.
The Blueprint Grand Challenge on Chronic Pain seeks to shed light on the molecular, cellular and circuit-level changes – or neuroplasticity – underlying chronic pain. A key element of the program is to form research collaborations between experts on pain and experts on neuroplasticity.
Mechanisms of Support
The Grand Challenge on Chronic Pain supports research through:
Title | PI | Institution | Grant Type |
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Clifford Woolf
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Children's Hospital Boston
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Competitive revision
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Vania Apkarian
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Northwestern University
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Multi-PI R01
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Allan Basbaum
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University of California San Francisco
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Multi-PI R01
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Hui-Lin Pan
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University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Multi-PI R01
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Ru-Rong Ji
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Duke University
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Multi-PI R01
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Valeria Cavalli
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Washington University St. Louis
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Competitive revision
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David Ginty
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Johns Hopkins University
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Multi-PI R01
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Linda Watkins
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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Multi-PI R01
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Veronica Shubayev
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University of California San Diego
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Multi-PI R01
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Valeria Cavalli
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Washington University St. Louis
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Multi-PI R01
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Lyudmila Vulchanova
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University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Multi-PI R01
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