Is silencing pain neurons the ultimate goal? Do you see opportunities here to dampen their activity- and wouldn’t that be preferred? What does this say about its clinical use? 🤓

Here is a link to the draft report; hopefully a finalized version is coming soon for sharing widely! heal.nih.gov/files/2025-0...

And it's unanimous! The NINDS Advisory Council has approved the HEAL pain research priority recommendations.

Great comments from council members, lots of energy around the idea I keep hearing: the need to educate the public, let people know what NIH researchers do, and the tremendous value of basic research leading to new treatments for #pain

...and another priority focused on building an evidence base for non-pharmacological therapies for pain and how to best use them, including understanding underlying biological mechanisms. These powerful treatments are used as trial and error; we need to know about dosing, timing.

Picked up by Co-Executive Chair Dr. Kathleen Sluka, describing the research priority to prevent the development of #chronicpain across the lifespan with biomarkers, better understanding of biology and #resilience

...and now Rob describing the ten broad, recommended research priorities, in no particular order. Support for building on the great success of HEAL with further discovery...

You bet. @robgereau.bsky.social giving an overview of the amazingly rapid process of developing these HEAL pain research recommendations, including a nod to our colleagues at the OPPP now gone from NIH. Also describing 5 core principles to be considered in all #painresearch