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…
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 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…
Neuroscientist Tuan Trang (2014 RAF Scholar) has won two prestigious awards for studies on chronic pain and alternatives to opioids.
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…
2014 RAF Scholar Tuan Trang and his team have identified an existing anti-gout drug that can alleviate opioid withdrawal symptoms in rodents.
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…
A chance introduction to the tricky issue of water pollution first attracted Diana Bautista to science. Growing up in Chicago, she was the first member of her family to finish high school, and she began college as a fine art major. But she floundered, and soon dropped out…
A conversation with Kathleen Foley, Rita Allen Foundation Medical Adviser and 1978 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Kathleen Foley was just beginning to delve into the emerging field of pain assessment and treatment when she was selected as a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar in 1978. As a member of the…
As an undergraduate studying biophysics, Jon Levine didn’t see himself going into medicine. He trained as a neuroscientist, first earning a Ph.D. at Yale, and then beginning a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, on the genetics of flight in fruit flies. It was 1972, and on…