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Scherrer Earns Three Grants for Innovative Pain, Opioid Research
The lab of Greg Scherrer, PhD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, investigates the precise ways in which opioids interact with brain mechanisms and then, armed with a better understanding of the underlying biology, the lab pursues new ways to block pain without causing significant side effects. A member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, Scherrer received three grants totaling more than $11 million to continue his work.
The National Institutes of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (NIH HEAL Initiative) is an aggressive, trans-agency effort to speed up scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis. Almost every NIH entity is accelerating research to address this public health emergency from all angles. As part of NIH HEAL, Scherrer’s lab received a $2.8-million, four-year grant to investigate pain relief mechanisms in the bra