Friday, July 6, 2018
The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation
At a time when the danger of opioids is clear, UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory are collaborating to form the Connecticut Pain Consortium.
Professor Reinhard Laubenbacher, who will lead the consortium and is a joint faculty member at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory, said the consortium will focus on researching the causes of pain, as well as pain management and how to translate that research into new therapies.
The Mayday Fund, which supports projects to close the gap between knowledge and practice in the care and treatment of pain, is providing a $55,000 planning grant to the UConn Foundation to launch the consortium....