CAMP Pain Research Initiative and Maintenance (CAMP-PRIM) Fund: The purpose of this initiative is to support the research, scholarship and creative endeavors of junior researchers including junior faculty post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in the field of pain research. The CAMP-PRIM is designed to support junior researchers in the initiation, completion, or maintenance of research projects, scholarly activities, creative works, or interdisciplinary initiatives that are critical to advancing pain assessment, measurement, and management. There will be two awards of $1500 for each grant in 2018.  Please the guidelines for submission instructions.  Please email a combined PDF of all materials to painresearch@uconn.edu by June 30, 2018. 

Congratulations to Dr. Kyounghae Kim and her research team including Co-PI, Dr. Guoan Zheng, Co-I, Dr. Angela Starkweather and Collaborator, Dr. Erin E. Young, who have received a Research Excellence Program grant for $49,545 from the Office of the Vice President for Research.  The title of the project is Development of a SPINE mobile application to improve low back pain self-management.  The aims of the study are to: (1) adapt a lower back pain self-management intervention called “Sensitivity to Pain IN ME” or “SPINE” to a mobile format; (2) evaluate the feasibility and initial efficacy of the intervention, in a one-group pretest/posttest study, on self-management skills and outcomes in 50 patients (ages 45–65) with acute lower back pain; and (3) compare sensory and gene expression profiles between patients who recover within 12 weeks and those developing chronic lower back pain.