With the overarching goal of advancing and generating new knowledge of pain mechanisms and improving the delivery of safe and effective methods to promote pain relief across populations and settings, the Center for Advancement of Managing Pain (CAMP) provides a collaborative infrastructure for pain management professional and academic researchers from across disciplines to establish translational programs of research, implement interdisciplinary pain education, and develop innovative approaches for advancing the practice of precision pain management

The BioBehavorial Lab is committed to supporting and promoting faculty and students’ research in the use of biobehavioral measures and physiological, genetic, and genomic approach. This lab offers the ability to collect samples (e.g., blood, saliva samples, buccal swabs), store, extract DNA, and run assays such as ELISAs to quantify hormone/cytokine levels in human or animal samples.