# Rodent Behavior Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $177,425

## Abstract

Abstract - Rodent Behavior Core
Our Center will have a Rodent Behavior Core to give scientific support to the animal research teams. This Core
will provide the program team with services that are critical to the Center’s success. The Core will perform
pain/control surgeries in rats and mice for all the laboratories involved in the Center. Most importantly the
core will perform a whole set of behavioral tests to assess the multiple components of the neuropathic pain
phenotype and its effect on drug seeking behavior. Having a common space to perform all the behavioral tests
will allow higher reproducibility of these complex protocols. Along this line, the Core personnel will not only
perform the behavioral assessments, but will also provide training and supervision to external personnel that
will be designated by the individual laboratories part of this Center Grant to help with the tests. The Core will
further aim to optimize and refine the behavioral protocols to ideally suit them to assess the complex
behavioral interaction between pain and drug seeking phenotype. The results of such effort will be summarized
in highly detailed standard operating procedures that will be posted online and will be available to the entire
scientific community. Finally, the Core will allow laboratories currently not directly involved with pain and/ or
drug addiction research to become involved in this type of research by providing them with preliminary data
critical to apply for external funding. Thus, this Core will play a critical role in expanding the scientific
community interested in this very important topic, which represents one of the most urgent priorities for NIH.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9938525
- **Project number:** 5P50DA044121-03
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MARCO MARTINA
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $177,425
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9938525

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9938525, Rodent Behavior Core (5P50DA044121-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9938525. Licensed CC0.

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