Research RESOURCES
Governmental Research Resources
ClinicalTrials.gov
A governmental-administered database of research trails in the US and beyond. You can search for research targeting specific medical conditions such as chronic pain. Also, if you are interested in participating, you can narrow the search to those projects that are actively recruiting.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health’s (NCCIH) Pain Research Center
A list of current projects sponsored by the NIH NCCIH and contact information if you have interest in being involved.
US Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research & Development for Pain Management
Ongoing studies can be found in the lower sections of the page.
NIH HEAL Initiative
Links to active studies funded by the NIH’s HEAL Initiative which has the overall goal of supporting clinical research programs evaluating new, innovative therapies for pain management. A list of HEAL-Funded Clinical Studies for Pain with links to ClinicalTrials.gov sites can be found on the website.
Organizational Research Resources:
- Chronic Pain Research Alliance: https://chronicpainresearch.org/research/clinical_studies/
- Duke University’s Chronic Pain Research Volunteer Database: https://www.dukehealth.org/clinical-trials/directory/pro00100585
- Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Translation Pain Research: https://www.massgeneral.org/anesthesia/translational-pain-research/current-studies
- Mayo Clinic Pain Medicine Clinical Trials: https://www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/pain-medicine/sections/clinical-trials/rsc-20450103
- PRECISION Pain Research Registry: https://www.unthsc.edu/research/precision-pain-research-registry/
- Stanford Medicine’s Division of Pain Medicine: https://med.stanford.edu/pain/research/current-studies.html
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention: https://www.uab.edu/cappi/research/pain
- University of California at San Deigo’s School of Medicine: https://anesthesia.ucsd.edu/divisions/pain-medicine/index.html
- University of Florida’s Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence: https://price.ctsi.ufl.edu
- University of Maryland Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research: https://www.umaryland.edu/cacpr/join-a-study/
- University of Michigan Medical School’s Pain Research: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/pain-research/currently-recruiting-studies
- University of Sydney’s Pain Management Research Institute (Australia): https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/our-research/research-centres/pain-management-research-institute.html
- University of Utah Pain Research Center: https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/pain-research-center/current-studies
- University of Washington’s Institute of Translational Health Sciences: https://www.iths.org/participate/studies/pain-management-anesthesiology/
- Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine’s PRISM Collaborative: https://www.prismcollab.org/participate-in-research