Rita Allen Scholar Elsa R. Flores (2005) will oversee the Basic Science Division at the Center
Elsa R. Flores has been named an Associate Director at the Moffitt Cancer Center…
Archive: Rita Allen Scholars
Rita Allen Scholars Grace Chen (2020) and Li Zhao (2019) win awards for their research on the root causes of lupus and immune genes, respectively
Rita Allen Scholars named 2021 Allen Distinguished Investigators…
Steven Prescott: Alleviating Chronic Pain—From Garden Snails to Allodynia
It was in high school that Steven Prescott first held a brain in his hands. It belonged to a fetal pig that he was dissecting in a biology course, and he remembers staring at it and marveling at how the human brain, though it functions similarly to a pig…
Ted Price: Developing Non-opioid Therapeutics for Pain
"I remember realizing when I wanted to become a scientist, after watching Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” says Ted Price, reflecting on his early-childhood watching of Carl Sagan’s award-winning PBS program. The show led Price to start reading popular-science books for kids and inspired his goal of becoming an astrophysicist.
Rita Allen Scholars Stephan Lammel (2017) and Lindsay Schwarz (2018) win awards for their work with the neural processes involved in hedonic feeding behavior and breathing-related neurons that connect respiration and cognitive state, respectively
Rita Allen Scholars receive 2022 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards from the McKnight Foundation…
Rita Allen Scholar Steven Altschuler (2008) and his team wins award for developing method to study cancer cell persistence
Steven Altschuler receives 2021 ASPIRE Award from the Mark Foundation…
Lucas Cheadle, Viviana Risca, and David van Valen receive NIH funding recognizing unusually creative early stage investigators
Rita Allen Scholars Lucas Cheadle (2021), Viviana Risca (2021), and David van Valen (2020) received 2022 NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards…
Rita Allen Scholar Candice Paulsen (2018) receives award in recognition for excellence in innovative teaching
Candice Paulsen awarded the 2021 Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation award…
Rita Allen Scholar Agata Smogorzewska (2010) and her team has been awarded $3.25 million to advance research for head and neck cancers
Agata Smogorzewska to lead Stand Up to Cancer research team…
Communicating Science in an Empathic and Inclusive Way: Why—and How—Should Pain Researchers Do It?
During a recent episode of “The Pain Beat”—a monthly podcast hosted by the Pain Research Forum that provides a space for pain investigators to discuss important ideas in their field—a group of pain researchers, science communicators, and civic science advocates, including Rita Allen Foundation’s President and…