Announcing the 2020 Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain Scholars
Four pioneering early-career scientists will receive support to uncover the biology of pain.
Archive: Pain
The Mitchell Max Award was presented to Michael Burton at the NIH Pain Consortium Symposium for his presentation on delayed onset of neuropathic pain in older men.
Rita Allen Scholar Michael Burton (2019) presented Mitchell Max Award for Research Excellence by NIH Pain Consortium…
Announcing the 2019 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
Major grants will support ten pioneering early-career biomedical scientists. The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2019 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating ten young leaders in the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health. The selected Scholars will receive…
Announcing the 2018 Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain Scholars
Tenth class of early-career pain researchers to investigate key regulators of pain signaling, inform new therapeutic strategies The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, recognizing emerging leaders in…
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Reveal Biological Forces That Underlie Responses to Change
Several Rita Allen Foundation Scholars have explored the genetic and cellular mechanisms that enable living things to adapt and survive in the face of an ever-changing environment. With support from the Foundation, these pioneering researchers have developed new ways to study the complex dynamics of DNA, track the activity of…
Tae Hoon Kim: Searching for the Genome’s Switches and Dials
Tae Hoon Kim began his training in bioinformatics before the term even entered common usage. As a college intern in the early 1990s at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, he learned state-of-the-art computational methods for analyzing DNA sequences. His work contributed to a new understanding…
Tuan Trang Wins Two Young Investigator Awards
Neuroscientist Tuan Trang (2014 RAF Scholar) has won two prestigious awards for studies on chronic pain and alternatives to opioids.
Announcing the 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
Early-career biomedical scientists to explore mechanisms of memory, injury and immunity in the nervous system and beyond The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2017 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to…
Tuan Trang Identifies Drug That Alleviates Opioid Withdrawal
2014 RAF Scholar Tuan Trang and his team have identified an existing anti-gout drug that can alleviate opioid withdrawal symptoms in rodents.
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Advance Understanding of Nervous Systems in Health and Disease
Several Rita Allen Scholars have forged new approaches to studying parasite neurobiology, neural plasticity, spinal cord cells and persistent pain with support from the Foundation. To celebrate their achievements, we share these summaries as their multiyear awards conclude. Elissa Hallem, University of California, Los Angeles…