The Opioid Crisis and the Future of Addiction and Pain Therapeutics
Submitted by Edie
- 15 January 2019
This National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)-sponsored The Opioid Crisis and the Future of Addiction and Pain Therapeutics: Opportunities, Tools, and Technologies Symposium will highlight challenges and opportunities throughout the discovery and development process for addiction- and pain-related medications in the pre-competitive preclinical stage and provide a framework for more focused efforts within the research community.
Symposium Goals
- Identify next generation targets and pathways for pain and addiction treatment.
- Highlight lessons learned from successes and failures with current pain and addiction targets.
- Discuss biomarkers to enable clinical trials.
- Describe more predictive in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo assays for pain and addiction to validate new targets, pathways and clinical candidates and to address safety and efficacy.
- Examine new discovery technologies and methodologies for pain and addiction therapeutics (including small molecules and biologics).
- Highlight key NIH resources and initiatives to support the development of pain and addiction therapeutics.