PhRMA, BIO on board with NIH's HEAL committee

NIH said it partnered with PhRMA and BIO to form a committee to help guide its Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative to address pain and addiction. Industry, academics and patients will be represented on the Heal Partnership Committee, designed as a forum for data sharing, collection and coordination of existing pain research initiatives.

The HEAL Initiative launched in April 2018 to improve translational research related to chronic pain and foster new non-addictive treatments (see “HEAL-ing Pain at NIH”)...