Grand Challenge on Chronic Pain - NIH

The Challenge

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:

Valeria Cavalli
Washington University St. Louis

Clifford Woolf
Children's Hospital Boston

Linda Watkins
University of Colorado at Boulder

Lyudmila Vulchanova
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Allan Basbaum
University of California San Francisco

Valeria Cavalli
Washington University St. Louis

Hui-Lin Pan
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Ru-Rong Ji
Duke University

David Ginty
Johns Hopkins University

Vania Apkarian
Northwestern University

Veronica Shubayev
University of California San Diego


http://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/chronic_pain.htm