HEAL Pilot Announcement

The CTSI is pleased to announce the funding of the 2019 CTSI HEAL Pilot Awardee.

July 26, 2019

Jennifer Check MD, HEAL Initiative recipient

The CTSI is pleased to announce the funding of the 2019 CTSI HEAL Pilot Awardee.
This pilot award is a funding opportunity under the NIH HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative.

Jennifer Check, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Thesis: Adverse Childhood Development in Substance-Exposed Newborns

 

The NIH reports the HEAL Initiative has been designed to address the opioid crisis with urgency and strategically focusing on: 

Improving Prevention and Treatment for Opioid Misuse and Addiction:

  • Expand therapeutic options for opioid addiction, overdose prevention and reversal
  • Enhance treatments for infants born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)/Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS)
  • Develop new or improved prevention and treatment strategies for addiction
  • Optimize effective treatment strategies for opioid addiction

Enhancing Pain Management:

  • Understand the biological underpinnings of chronic pain
  • Accelerate the discovery and pre-clinical development of non-addictive pain treatments
  • Advance new non-addictive pain treatments through the clinical pipeline
  • Establish the best pain management strategies for acute and chronic pain conditions

Read more about the HEAL initiative research plan.