📣📣 Exciting opportunity to present your work at Vanderbilt! Please apply and help me spread the word!

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

Drs. Burel Goodin (Burel Goodin) & Simon Haroutounian (Simon Haroutounian) have been selected for the 2025 cohort of the Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship! Congratulations to these two extraordinary #WashUanesthesiology faculty members! anesthesiology.wustl.edu/two-anesthesio…

ICYMI: Finally some good news! The senate committee rejected the 40% budget cut for NIH and instead endorsed a $400 million budget increase! Science for the win.

The NIH National Institutes of Health’s budget, and structure, would be preserved under a Senate bill for the 2026 fiscal year. science.org/content/articl…

#AusPainSoc #PinCSIG, check out the Clinical Research Grant opportunity: ow.ly/zYn850WEXrE Application Mentoring: 20AUG25 at 1:30-2pm AEST, register: ow.ly/or3Q50WEXrF Deadline: 05SEP25

The St. Louis Translational Pain Research Forum is a space for connection—where collaboration drives discovery. Join researchers across the pain translational spectrum for two days of meaningful science and new partnerships. stl-tprf2023.my.canva.site/stl-tprf2025 #STLTPRF

This is the way. Pain scientists openly sharing hard-earned knowledge with each other, especially about the things that *don't work*. No need for every generation to re-invent wheels. Thank you Patri Tezanos forum.painresearcher.net/t/ef1a-promote…

New NIH research finds that chronic pain has surged 18% since before the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the total to more than 60 million adults. The findings highlight an urgent need to address this growing public health crisis. bit.ly/4oDid6c

The Sept. Issue of National Geographic features exciting research from Susruta Majumdar: A New Tool in the Fight Against Chronic Pain! The story explores how cannabis research is shaping safer treatments. nationalgeographic.com/health/article… @WashUMedicine WashU Medicine Anesthesiology Center for Clinical Pharmacology

A massive genetic study in nature just identified why chronic pain hits some people harder than others. They discovered the first neuronal “pain transporter” - and it could unlock entirely new ways to treat pain. 🧵

Longitudinal neuroimaging of participants with planned arm amputations shows that the cortical body map remains stable after amputation, with no evidence of hand or face reorganization The findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, challenge long-standing theories of brain remapping

De la Peña et al. profile translation in the dorsal root ganglion in a model of paclitaxel and uncover a novel post-transcriptional regulatory network that controls the nonselective sodium leak channel. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/46LPyoR

A NOA from NIDA on a UG3 grant is here. Excited to work with Brian Kobilka and Jay Mclaughlin on NAMs for treating opioid overdose upto IND phase. Several postdoc positions in both chemistry/pharmacology available. WashU Medicine Center for Clinical Pharmacology Please RT

HHMI is hiring! 9 new positions available HHMI Individual job details below!👇 1/10

BindCraft is now published in nature! The open-source pipeline for de novo protein binder design achieves significantly improved success rates with nanomolar affinity and therapeutic potential from gene editing to allergens. Read more at Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: tinyurl.com/563zepkj

Had a wonderful time visiting the UT Dallas Center for Advanced Pain Studies ! Huge thanks to Diana Tavares Ferreira for the warm welcome and to everyone I met for the exciting conversations and inspiration. Looking forward to future collaborations!

A lung from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a person for the first time. Lungs are complex organs to transplant, but the surgery is a step towards clinical trials. go.nature.com/4lPsDgk

📱 Social media 💲 Bitcoin 💻 AI A timely WashU political science course dives into how technology transforms politics—and how politics, in turn, shapes technology. bit.ly/45fiynX

Delighted to be starting a new research group: helmholtz-hzi.de/en/research/re… Will soon be hiring at all levels! If interested get in touch with CV and motivation letter for an informal chat. #pain #infection #electrophysiology #proteomics