{"id":17146,"date":"2024-09-25T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/?p=17146"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:42:31","slug":"medical-startup-soleia-biosciences-aims-to-eliminate-severe-pain-without-the-opioids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2024\/09\/25\/medical-startup-soleia-biosciences-aims-to-eliminate-severe-pain-without-the-opioids\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Startup Soleia Biosciences Aims to Eliminate Severe Pain\u2013Without the Opioids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn professors Lakshmi Nair, Ph.D. and Yusuf Khan, Ph.D., in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, believe they are on the cusp of a breakthrough pain-reduction treatment that is both highly effective and safe. Nair has been working to significantly extend the duration of local anesthetics, enabling patients to be pain-free, mobile, and benefit from medications that have been safely used for decades. The pain medication would be delivered by injection.<\/p>\n<p>Their pharmaceutical company, Soleia Biosciences, has been identified as one of five extremely promising UConn-affiliated startups. They will be pitching in the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ccei.uconn.edu\/wolff-new-venture-competition\/\">Wolff New Venture Competition<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>on Oct. 1 in Downtown Hartford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/09\/medical-startup-soleia-biosciences-aims-to-eliminate-severe-pain-without-the-opioids\/\">Read more on UConn Today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn professors Lakshmi Nair, Ph.D. and Yusuf Khan, Ph.D., in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, believe they are on the cusp of a breakthrough pain-reduction treatment that is both highly effective and safe. Nair has been working to significantly extend the duration of local anesthetics, enabling patients to be pain-free, mobile, and benefit from medications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 13:19:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17147,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions\/17147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}