HEAL Initiative: Program to Reveal and Evaluate Cells-to-gene Information that Specify Intricacies, Origins and the Nature of (PRECISION) Human Pain Network

About this grant

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, in conjunction with other NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) as a part of the congressionally mandated  NIH Helping to End Addiction Long Term (HEAL) initiative intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to solicit applications for  comprehensive ‘omics and physiology dataset generation using primary human tissue across the pain neuraxis. Applications should focus on large-scale, high-throughput data ge Grant Number: RFA-NS-26-013.

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5. 5Applications must be submitted through grants.gov
6. 6Grant Number: RFA-NS-26-013
7. 7Posted: 2026-02-20

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