A Saint Louis University pain researcher has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate a pain signaling pathway in order to help open up a new avenue for pain medication research, officials said. Dr. Daniela Salvemini has spent her career studying chronic neuropathic pain in order to help find new ways to treat it without opioids.
Neuropathic pain affects between 15 and 20 million people in the U.S. This type of pain happens after injuries to the nervous…