UTD Researcher Receives $11.3M from NINDS to Find New Ways to Treat Pain

A University of Texas at Dallas researcher is leading a team of national experts in a new National Institutes of Health multicenter project focused on elucidating the origins of pain.

Dr. Ted Price, Ashbel Smith Professor of neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, received a five-year, $11.3 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to launch the Human Nociceptor and Spinal Cord Molecular Signature Center. Researchers will focus on expanding knowledge about the genesis of human pain at the cellular and molecular level, with the goal of finding new approaches to treat pain.