NIH grant awarded to research on treatments for oral cancer 

The National Institutes of Health awarded the NYU College of Dentistry’s Pain Research Center an $8 million grant to support research toward treatments for oral cancer as an alternative to opioids.

The funding is a part of Helping to End Addiction Long-term, an NIH initiative aiming to prevent and treat the overuse of opioids.

Collaborating researchers from NYU, Columbia University and the University of Florida will use the grant to develop nanoparticles, help scientists study pain, see how pain signals move throughout the body and observe how pain receptors released from tumors spread pain signals to other nearby cells.  

Full story: NYU College of Dentistry

 

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