The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The grant aims to support interdisciplinary research teams in investigating the mechanism of action of pain relief provided by medical devices, with the ultimate goal of optimizing therapeutic outcomes for technologies that are FDA-approved or -cleared. It encourages collaborations that bring together multidisciplinary expertise to forge new principles and methods for experimentation, analysis, and interpretation. The focus is on producing major advances in the field of pain relief through medical devices, aiming at treatments that minimize or eliminate addiction risks.