Focusing on Nature for New Sources of Analgesic Compounds | NCCIH

Focusing on Nature for New Sources of Analgesic Compounds | NCCIH

Focusing on Nature for New Sources of Analgesic Compounds  July 01, 2019 Craig Hopp, Ph.D I’d like to tell you today about a couple of exciting NCCIH activities in the past few months with respect to our research interest in natural products.  On February 6, we cosponsored a 1-day workshop at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on “Natural Products and Pain: The Search for Novel Nonopioid Analgesics” with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. A video recording of this event is available at NIH Videocast.  The workshop represented two of the Center’s top research priorities—natural products and pain—and brought together speakers and attendees from academia, industry, and NIH and other Government bodies. They shared successes and challenges in identifying new leads for promising compounds that could treat pain effectively, safely, and nonaddictively and/or serve as probes to study the biology of pain. Read the full post and comment