  {"id":5109,"date":"2024-02-02T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:13:54","slug":"brown-receives-grant-to-develop-nonaddictive-painkillers-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2024\/02\/02\/brown-receives-grant-to-develop-nonaddictive-painkillers-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Brown receives grant to develop nonaddictive painkillers with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4652\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2023\/05\/05\/congratulations-ben-brown-alican-gulsevin\/brown_benjamin_patrick_002\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2023\/05\/19203707\/Brown_Benjamin_Patrick_002-scaled-e1708445867594.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1479,1867\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1673865380&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brown_Benjamin_Patrick_002\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ben Brown, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2023\/05\/19203707\/Brown_Benjamin_Patrick_002-scaled-e1708445867594-238x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2023\/05\/19203707\/Brown_Benjamin_Patrick_002-scaled-e1708445867594-811x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4652\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2023\/05\/19203707\/Brown_Benjamin_Patrick_002-scaled-e1708445867594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"266\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Brown, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/mstp\/person\/benjamin-p-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ben Brown<\/strong><\/a>, assistant research professor in chemistry, was recently awarded $2.375M to develop nonaddictive painkillers with AI.<\/p>\n<p>The grant, an <a href=\"https:\/\/nida.nih.gov\/about-nida\/organization\/divisions\/division-neuroscience-behavior-dnb\/chemistry-physiological-systems-research-branch-cpsrb\/avenir-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avenir Award in Chemistry and Pharmacology of Substance Use Disorders<\/a>, is awarded by NIDA to early-stage investigators who propose highly innovative studies and represent the future of addiction science. Ben&#8217;s research will focus on Mu-opioid receptors, signaling proteins in the central nervous system that bind with opioids.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2024\/01\/18\/vanderbilt-chemist-ben-brown-awarded-2-375m-to-develop-nonaddictive-painkillers-with-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Research News website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Brown, assistant research professor in chemistry, was recently awarded $2.375M to develop nonaddictive painkillers with AI. The grant, an Avenir Award in Chemistry and Pharmacology of Substance Use Disorders, is awarded by NIDA to early-stage investigators who propose highly innovative studies and represent the future of addiction science. Ben&#8217;s research will focus on Mu-opioid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}