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IASP Early Career Research Grants

How To Apply

All applications must be submitted in English through the online submission portal. No applications will be accepted via email or postal mail. 

IASP Early Career Research Grants facilitate the development of young researchers just starting their careers as independent investigators.

Application Period: Closed

Grant Overview

IASP Early Career Research Grants facilitate the development of young researchers just starting their careers as independent investigators.

Grant Details

Multiple grants of $20,000 US are awarded on an annual basis for projects lasting one year. Grants are available internationally and are not related to any particular discipline.

Awardees must abide by the following terms:

  • The awardee is responsible for managing the grant funds which are administered by the awardee’s institution.  
  • The awardee must acknowledge IASP as a source of funding in any publications arising from work supported by these grants.
  • The awardee must agree to start the project within one year of the announcement of the award.
  • The awardee must agree to complete the project within one year from the agreed upon start date.
  • The awardee must submit a 6-month progress report, a detailed final scientific report within six months of completing the project and a two-year progress report indicating the impact of the grant on future research.

Grant Eligibility Requirements

At the time of application, applicants should:

  • Be IASP members
  • Be within 6 years of having received their final degree or completing professional and specialty training
  • Be initiating their career as an independent investigator (not under supervision of a senior scientist)
  • Not have been the recipient of a grant that provides support equal to or greater than the IASP Early Career Research Grant
  • Not be in a leadership position such as a current professor or associate professor

Grant Application Requirements

  • Complete the online application. Additional documents needed for the online application are listed in the subsequent points
  • A description of the research project to be undertaken (4 pages max, including references, 11 pt. font, ½ inch (1.27 cm) margins)
  • At least one letter of recommendation
  • A letter from an institutional official that includes:
    • Evidence of professional independence (with dedicated and independent research space, etc.)
    • Evidence of institutional support (e.g. that basic costs, such as associated salary, administrative support and the use of laboratory/office space are covered);
    • Non-profit status of the institute
    • Acknowledgment that neither the IASP nor the Early Career Research Grant will be liable (i.e. charged) for any indirect costs (overhead and handling fees) associated with the execution of the work described in the application.
  • The short version curriculum vitae of the applicant including a list of publications (4 pages max).
  • The IASP template which must be used is available here
  • Proposed budget. The budget template is available here 

Grant Review Process and Criteria

The Fellowships, Grants, and Awards Working Group reviews all applications and makes final decisions. Applications will be reviewed based on the scientific merit of the research and the qualifications of the investigator. Only work published in international refereed journals or periodicals will be considered.

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Winners

2022

  • Iris Coppieters, PhD (Belgium) Unraveling the microbiota-gut-brain signalling mechanisms underlying chronic low back pain phenotypes: a novel therapeutic target?
  • Hadas Nahman-Averbuch, PhD (U.S.) Hormonal mechanisms of puberty related alterations in pain sensitivity 
2021
  • Sarah Luthy, MD, Cincinnati Children's Hosptial Medical Center (USA): "Multidimensional Acute Pain Assessment in Children with Severe Neurological Impairment"
  • Kaya Peerdeman, PhD, Leiden University (Netherlands): "Pain, should you expect the best or worst?"
2020
  • Paulino Barragan-Iglesias, PhD, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (Mexico): "Deciphering mechanisms underlying virus-evoked painful neuropathies"
  • Jerry Kalangara, MD, PhD, Emory University and Atlanta VA Health Care System (USA): "Functional evaluation of humoral immunity in a real-world cohort of opioid users."
2019
  • Amanda Stone, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Project (USA): "The influence of childhood chronic pain history on parenting and pain-related risk in offspring: A longitudinal cohort study"
  • Simple Futarmal Kothari, PhD, Aarhus University Project (Denmark): “From pain in the face to perceptual distortion: Exploring mechanisms and novel treatment strategies”
  • Carolina Beraldo Meloto, PhD, McGill University Project (Canada): “A role for bisphenol-A in chronic pain: Study in humans and mice”
2018
  • Candice Paulsen, PhD, Yale University (USA). Project: “Uncovering the regulation of TRPA1 by irritants and proteins”
  • Amaury Francois, PhD, Université de Montpellier (France). Project: : “Contribution of C-LTMRs and Insular cortex to hedonic touch and the development of anxiety and depressive disorders associated with chronic pain”
2017
  • Lisa Carlesso, PhD, Université de Montréal (Canada) Project: Pain Phenotyping of People with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Latent Profile Analysis with relationships to function, physical performance and healthcare utilization
  • Jennifer Deuis, PhD The University of Queensland (Australia) Project: Developing novel treatment approaches for the rare genetic disease inherited erythromelalgia
  • Cornelius Groenewald, PhD, Seattle Children's Hospital and University of Washington (United States) Project: Phenotype and genotype correlates underlying the temporal relationship between adolescent chronic pain and prescription opioid misuse in adulthood
  • Maria Maiaru, PhD, University College London (United Kingdom) Project: Could FKBP51 control chronic pain via modulation of the autophagic pathways?
  • Marc Martel, PhD, McGill University (Canada) Project: Biological and psychological determinants of opioid craving among chronic pain patients prescribed opioid therapy
  • Massieh Moayedi, PhD, University of Toronto (Canada) Project: A neurocomputational investigation of pain-cognition interactions
2016
  • Rachel Miller, PhD, Rush University Medical Center (USA) Project: A Functional Imaging Approach to Probe the Role of Mechanosensory Neurons in Experimental Osteoarthritis Knee Pain
  • Hugues Petitjean, PhD, McGill University (Canada) Project: Investigations of pruning of inhibitory synaptic contacts onto PKCgamma dorsal horn neurons after nerve injury
  • Dimitiri Van Ryckeghem, PhD, Ghent University (Belgium) Project: Attention bias for pain: A dynamic and contextual approach
2015
  • Line Caes, PhD, NUI Galway (Ireland) Project: Parent-child mutual interactions during preschoolers' everyday pain experiences: a pilot study
  • Hugo Leite-Almeida, PhD, ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal) Project: Impulsive decision-making in rats with chronic neuropathic pain – the role of accumbal dopaminergic (dys)function
  • Niamh Moloney, PhD, Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia) Project: Predicting the development of persistent pain after breast cancer treatment
  • Mathieu Roy, PhD, PERFORM Center, Concordia University, Montreal (Canada) Project: No pain, no gain: a neuroimaging investigation of the cerebral mechanisms underlying making decisions between pain avoidance and reward seeking
  • Annina Schmid, PhD Oxford University, Oxford (United Kingdom) Project: A novel approach to understanding injury and regeneration in patients with entrapment neuropathies
  • Yi Ye, PhD, New York University, New York (USA) Project: Resolvin D2 as a novel therapy for head and neck cancer progression and pain
2014
  • Margarita Calvo Bascunan, PhD (Chile) Project: Investigating a novel mechanism of hypersensitivity induced by exclusive damage to epidermal nerve fiber: neuropathic pain in Epidermolysis Bullosa
  • Robert Ernest Sorge, PhD (USA) Project: The effect of diet and dietary intervention on behavioral and physiological indices of pain in rats
  • Michael E. Hildebrand, PhD (Canada) Project: Spinal cord ion channels in acute and chronic pain signaling
  • Chi Tonglien Viet, PhD (USA) Project: Mechanisms of OPRM1 Regulation in Head and Neck Cancer Pain
  • Sara Marinelli, PhD (Italy) Project: Botulinum Neurotoxin type A as pharmacological tool for controlling pain and inflammation in murine model of spinal contusion: effects on spinal cord regeneration
  • Franziska Denk, PhD (UK) Project: Investigating the role of DNA methyltransferases in persistent pain using a transgenic approach
  • Saad Nagi, PhD (Australia) Project: Role of C-tactile Fibers in Pain Processing: Experimental and Clinical Investigations
  • Ewan St. John Smith, PhD (UK) Project: Determining the impact of tissue acidosis on nociceptor excitability in inflammatory pain
2013
  • Jennifer Gibbs, PhD (USA) Project: TRPM8 receptor expression and function in afferents of the dental pulp
  • Isabel Martins, PhD (Portugal) Project: Opioid-induced hyperalgesia: unravelling the role of a pain facilitatory area of the brain
  • Marco Loggia, PhD (USA) Project: An in-vivo investigation of brain inflammation in fibromyalgia with integrated PET/MR imaging
  • Djane Duarte, PhD (Brazil) Project: Targeting peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors-gamma (PPARy) for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy treatment
2012
  • Alexandre Charlet, PhD (Switzerland) Project: Involvement of astrocytes in the endogenous oxytocin modification of amygdala microcircuit
  • Michael Jankowski, PhD (USA) Project: Peripheral mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain after ischemic tissue injury
  • Anna Andreou, PhD (UK) Project: Hypothalamic modulation of the sensory thalamus in migraine
  • Fabio Godinho, PhD (Brazil) Project: Compassional modulation of pain in Parkinson’s disease patients: the effect of bilateral pallidothalamic tractotomy on compassional pain modulation and the role of subthalamic nucleus on empathy to pain. A behavioral, neurophysiological and neurosurgical study
  • Alessandro Capuano, PhD (Italy) Project: Familial aggregation of putative biomarkers of migraine: A family-based pilot study
  • Kevin Woo, PhD (Canada) Project: Pain and delayed wound healing: the mediating effect of psychological stress and inflammatory response
  • Martin Diers, PhD (Germany) Project: Seeing what you feel behind: neuronal correlates of seeing painful stimulation
  • Andreas Leffler, PhD (Germany) Project: Targeting TRP-channels other than TRPV1 for topical analgesia by induction of neurotoxicity
2011
  • Thiago Cunha, PhD (Brazil) Project: Investigation of the role of DAMPs/pattern recognition receptors in the development of chronic pain
  • Lorenzo Fabrizi, PhD (UK) Project: A multimodal approach to the study of pain in nonverbal individuals
  • Clas Linnman, PhD (USA) Project: Do mechanisms for functional recruitment of the periaqueductal gray differ between men and women with interictal migraine?
  • Tine Vervoort, PhD (Belgium) Project: Parental attentional processing of and behavioral responses to their child's pain
  • Irina Vetter, PhD (Australia) Project: Development of a mouse model of ciguatoxin-induced cold allodynia to dissect the underlying mechanisms of cold pain
2010
  • Michael Boettger, MD (Germany) Project: Blood-induced arthritis as a model for hyperalgesia – a translational approach to examine the underlying mechanisms of joint pain in hemophilia
  • Luana Colloca, PhD (USA) Project: The potential role on placebo analgesia of the production of OXT (oxytocin) in the brain will be investigated by using a behavioral and pharmacological OXT agonist and antagonist approach
  • Matilde Cordero-Erausquin, PhD (France) Project: Functional connectivity of spinal cholinergic interneurons: a keystone for cholinergic analgesia
  • André Mouraux, PhD (Belgium) Project: Steady-state evoked potentials will be used to explore the cortical processing of nociceptive input
  • Toru Taguchi, DSc (Japan) Project: Looking at the fascia not only as supportive tissue, but also as a sensory organ that originates nociceptive information, this research will investigate the peripheral thin-fiber afferents with fascia receptive fields
2009
  • Marucia Chacur, PhD (Brazil) Project: Muscle Pain: A behavioral and electrophysiological model
  • Durga Mohapatra, PhD (USA) Project: Distinct Chemokine modulation of TRPV1 in prostate cancer pain
  • Otilia Obreja, PhD (Germany) Project: Axonal excitability in nociceptors
  • Petra Schweinhardt, PhD (Germany) Project: The effects of central D2-receptor blockade on pain sensitivity and pain modulatory capacity in male and female volunteers
  • Camilla Svensson, PhD (Sweden) Project: Inflammatory and neuropathic pain – role of spinal mTOR
2007
  • Pablo Brumovsky, MD, PhD (USA) Project: Vesicular glutamate transporters and chronic visceral pain
  • David Seminowicz, PhD (Canada) Project: The effects of chronic pain on functional and structural brain networks
  • Till Sprenger, Dr. Med (Germany) Project: Lesion mapping and somatosensory patterns in patients suffering from thalamic pain
  • Stefaan Van Damme, PhD (Belgium) Project: The role of goal pursuit in maladaptive responses to pain
  • Suellen Walker, PhD (UK) Project: Repeated surgery and pain: early life effects