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This year’s awardees are tackling some of the most urgent life science challenges with projects spanning novel therapeutics to AI-powered medical solutions.
- January 21, 2025Source: Yale News
Chemicals found in cannabis show promise for treating chronic pain, a new Yale study shows, and may present an alternative to opioids.
- January 03, 2024
In a groundbreaking development, Yale and VA researchers have identified Nav1.7 sodium channels as a novel target for the development of disease-modifying treatments for OA.
- August 03, 2023
Pain is a pervasive symptom encountered by physicians worldwide and a longstanding medical challenge, particularly against the backdrop of the opioid crisis.
- August 03, 2023Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
Some types of pain have proven resistant to all available medications. In this episode of “Intention to Treat,” Rachel Gotbaum talks with a patient with neuropathic pain and a researcher exploring new sodium-channel blockers that offer promise for such patients.
- August 03, 2023Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
This editorial describes the science behind clinical trials of an inhibitor of the sodium channel Nav1.8 to treat acute postoperative pain.
- February 16, 2022
A team of researchers—including Yale School of Medicine’s Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj, PhD, senior research scientist in neurology, Stephen G. Waxman, MD, PhD, professor of neurology, and Lakshmi Bangalore, PhD, lecturer in neurology—has been awarded funding through the NIH HEAL Initiative: Team Research for Initial Translational Efforts in Non-addictive Analgesic Therapeutics Development.
- October 23, 2019
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System show at single-molecule resolution how nerve cells build their electrically excitable membranes.
- December 04, 2018
Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System have successfully demonstrated that it is possible to pinpoint genes that contribute to inter-individual differences in pain.
- November 03, 2018
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced that Stephen G. Waxman, MD, PhD, Bridget M. Flaherty Professor of Neurology and professor of neurobiology and of pharmacology, is this year's recipient of its Julius Axelrod Prize.