Pain Research & Integrated Neuroscience Symposium Awards

PRINC awardees

For the Pain Research & Integrated Neuroscience Symposium held on March 31, 2025 at the HPNP Auditorium at the University of Florida, where three of our researchers won awards for their posters.

Congratulations to Heather Allen, Ph.D. for being awarded First Place for her poster: “Parabrachial neuropeptide Y Y1 receptor neurons control persistent pain in rodents”. 

Congratulations to Niloofar Ghadirian, Ph.D. for being awarded Second Place for her poster: “Targeting CFTR mRNA with small molecules: a structure-based approach for cystic fibrosis”. 

Congratulations to Aida Calderon-Rivera for being awarded Third Place for her poster: “Mouse models of non-dystrophic and dystrophic myotonia exhibit nociplastic pain-like behaviors”.