CENTER FOR ADVANCED PAIN STUDIES

The Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) is composed of six founding UT Dallas faculty, affiliate faculty at UT Southwestern (UTSW), twelve postdoctoral fellows/research associates, and graduate students across multiple academic disciplines studying different facets of chronic pain and migraine... The center shares the expertise and technology necessary to foster new research endeavors in pain studies. The capabilities in pain research range from animal behavioral paradigms, genomic and molecular biological methodologies, high-content electrophysiological and imaging techniques, cell culture, and medicinal chemistry methods. Conceived at a meeting hosted by UTD, the center is the focal point for coordination with the Texas Pain Research Consortium, which has developed into a thriving organization that brings together pain researchers across the UT System and the State. The CAPS cultivates UT Dallas investigators who are new to pain research, but also bring novel ideas, reagents,..

Also known as: CAPS

Primary location: Richardson United States