Congratulations to Jie Chen, MSN, RN, our PhD student who has received a $25,000 grant award from the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) for his proposal Phenotyping and Biomarkers of Pain in Older Adults with Heart Failure. Jie Chen, his Major Advisor, Dr. Xiaomei Cong, and Co-Investigators, Dr. Angela Starkweather, Dr. Ming-hui Chen, Dr. Kendra Maas and Dr. Paula McCauley, will use the National Institute of Health Symptom Science Model (NIH-SSM) as conceptual framework. Their study will focus on phenotyping sex-specific pain by exploring the relationships among pain, symptom burdens, and quality of life in older adults with heart failure; and identifying biomarkers by differentiating patterns of gut microbiota and inflammatory cytokines between heart failure patients with and those without pain.