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Project # | Project Title | Research Focus Area | Research Program | Administering IC Sort ascending | Institution(s) | Investigator(s) | Location(s) | Year Awarded |
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1UG3NR020929-01
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Reaching Rural Veterans: Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain Using a Whole Health Telehealth Intervention (RAMP-WH) | Clinical Research in Pain Management | Prevention and Management of Chronic Pain in Rural Populations | NINR | CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION | BURGESS, DIANA J (contact); EVANS RONI L; HADLANDSMYTH, KATHERINE E | Minneapolis, MN | 2023 |
NOFO Title: HEAL Initiative: Prevention and Management of Chronic Pain in Rural Populations (UG3/UH3, Clinical Trials Required)
NOFO Number: RFA-NR-23-001 Summary: This project addresses the significant challenge of providing evidence-based, non-pharmacologic pain management to veterans with chronic pain living in rural regions. This research will test whether an innovative, virtual complementary and integrative group-based treatment will improve rural veterans’ pain management, function, and well-being. The research will also devise, evaluate, and adapt strategies for implementing this intervention while working with the health care system, veteran patients, and communities. The scalable, 12-week intervention includes pain education, mindfulness, pain-specific exercises, and cognitive behavioral strategies. |
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1UG3NR019196-01
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Pain Response Evaluation of a Combined Intervention to Cope Effectively (PRECICE) | Clinical Research in Pain Management | Pain Management Effectiveness Research Network (ERN) | NINR | WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES | ANG, DENNIS CHUA | Winston-Salem, NC | 2020 |
NOFO Title: HEAL Initiative: Pain Management Effectiveness Research Network: Clinical Trial Planning and Implementation Cooperative Agreement (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required)
NOFO Number: RFA-NS-19-021 Summary: Chronic musculoskeletal pain is common and often severe enough to be disabling. Some treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapies or analgesics may relieve pain for some, but not all patients. Combining effective therapies and providing support to ensure that patients are motivated to adhere to their treatment may prove to be more beneficial to patients than prescribing a drug or recommending a single non-pharmacological treatment. This study aims to evaluate a combination of complementary treatments and Registered Nurse (RN) support to motivate patients to use and maintain combined therapies. Some patients will receive phone-based motivational interviews with an RN to enhance their adherence to pain coping skills learned through web-based cognitive behavioral therapy in combination with duloxetine, a pain-relieving drug. Others will receive both treatments but will not receive support from an RN. The study aims to determine whether motivational nursing support enhances adherence to newly learned pain coping skills, and results in improved pain relief and physical function. |
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3R01NR015642-04S1
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SEVERE PAIN DURING WOUND CARE PROCEDURES: MODEL AND MECHANISMS | Clinical Research in Pain Management | NINR | University of Iowa | GARDNER, SUE E | Iowa City, IA | 2018 | |
NOFO Title: Chronic Wounds: Advancing the Science from Prevention to Healing (R01)
NOFO Number: RFA-NR-15-001 Summary: Wound care procedures (WCPs), such as dressing changes, cause moderate to severe pain in 74% of patients, nearly half of whom experience severe pain. Mainstay recommendations to prevent pain during WCPs have focused on either administration of preventive and procedural analgesia or use of expensive, non-adherent dressings. However, it is unclear which patients to target for analgesia or expensive dressings, leading to their inappropriate over- or underuse. To achieve the aims of the study, a comprehensive set of wound, patient, and biological factors will be measured concurrently with pain during a dressing change among a sample of 450 inpatients with open wounds. A predictive model will be developed and biological mechanisms will be examined using logistic regression. The proposed study has the potential to make significant contributions because clinicians will be able to target those patients requiring preventive pain control, thereby eliminating the spiraling impact of painful procedures on nociceptor sensitization. |
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1R61NS126029-01A1
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Inhibiting RIPK1 with Necrostatin-1 for Safe and Effective Pain Treatment | Preclinical and Translational Research in Pain Management | Development and Optimization of Non-Addictive Therapies to Treat Pain | NINDS | Massachusetts General Hospital | SHEN, SHIQIAN (contact); HOULE, TIMOTHY T; WANG, CHANGNING ; ZHANG, CAN MARTIN | Boston, MA | 2022 |
NOFO Title: HEAL Initiative: Planning Studies for Initial Analgesic Development [Small Molecules and Biologics] (R61 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NOFO Number: NS21-029 Summary: Recent studies have reported that neuropathic pain involves changes in the central nervous system that are linked to necroptosis (programmed necrotic cell death) and release of cellular components that create neuroinflammation. Necroptosis is a type of necrotic cell death affected by the protein receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1 or RIP1). Preliminary studies also indicate that pain increases levels of RIPK1 in key brain regions implicated in pain processing. This project aims to further validate RIPK1 as a target for neuropathic pain using a newly developed positron emission tomography imaging approach. The work will pave the way for new brain-penetrant RIPK1 inhibitors as a safe, effective, and nonaddictive treatment approach for neuropathic pain. |
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3R61NS127285-01S1
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Investigating the Contributions of Voltage Gated Sodium Channels to Oxaliplatin Induced Neuropathy | Cross-Cutting Research | Training the Next Generation of Researchers in HEAL | NINDS | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS | YAROV-YAROVOY, VLADIMIR M | Davis, CA | 2022 |
NOFO Title: Notice of Special Interest to Encourage Eligible NIH HEAL Initiative Awardees to Apply for PA-20-222: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NOFO Number: NOT-NS-20-107; PA-21-071 Summary: Many molecular gates known as ion channels control the flow of electrical signals to sensory neurons and are thus key mechanisms and targets for understanding and interrupting pain signals. Recent breakthroughs in structural and computational biology shave illuminated specific molecular shapes of ion channels, which permits the improved design and refinement of small, stable protein-like molecules (peptide antigens). These peptides can stimulate an immune response that can then be targeted with a bioengineered antibody to match the peptide antigen. This project will test bioengineered antibodies in a rat model of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy within a region of the rat spinal cord that transmits signals to and from the brain. |