Georgia State researcher awarded NIH grant to explore pain management therapies for elderly

Dr. Anne Murphy, a biologist of Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health , to investigate pain management therapies for people aged 65 or older. As associate professor and associate director of the Neuroscience Institute, Dr. Murphy studies the impact of sex and age on pain and opiate responsiveness as well as the impact of early-life experience on adult responses to pain and stress.