Grants and Awards

Grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as Principal Investigator

• 1-R01-DA-12609. National Institute of Drug Abuse. Spinal Neurokinin and Opioid Release in Nociception. Total direct costs $900,000. 07/2000 – 06/2005.

• 2-R01-DA-012609. National Institute of Drug Abuse. Spinal Opioid Release in Nociception. Total direct costs $775,000. 09/2005 – 05/2009 (no-cost extension to 05/2010).

• 1-R01-DA-033059. National Institute of Drug Abuse. NMDA Receptors in Primary Afferents. Total direct costs $1,100,000. 07/2012 - 04/2017 (no-cost extension to 05/2018).

Grants from the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), as Principal Investigador

• Merit Review grant B4766-I, VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service. Neurotransmitter control of substance P release in the spinal cord. Total direct costs $525,000. 07/2007 - 06/2010.

• Merit Review grant I01 RX000378, VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service. Neurotransmitter control of substance P release in the spinal cord. Total direct costs $1,000,000. 03/2011 - 02/2015.

• Merit Review grant 1I01 RX001646, VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service. Latent Sensitization and Neuropathic Pain. Total direct costs $1,098,992. 11/2015 - 10/2019.

Fellowships

• Doctorate Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, 01/81-12/84.

• Fogarty Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, 04/86-09/86.

• Fulbright Fellowship from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (USA) and the Ministry of Education and Science (Spain), 09/86-09/88.

• Training Grant from CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center, UCLA, 07/94-06/96.

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