SLU researcher wins $4.5 million in grants to study side effects of chemo, opioids

A Saint Louis University scientist will use $4.5 million in grant money from the National Institutes of Health for separate studies on the side effects of chemotherapy and those from opioids. Daniela Salvemini, a SLU professor of pharmacology and physiology who focuses on pain research, will use a more than $2.8 million NIH grant to study chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment (CICI), or so-called "chemo-brain," that can be experienced by cancer patients. CICI is a major neurotoxi c side effect…
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