AppliedVR, a leading pioneer of the next generation of digital medicine, today announced that it has been awarded two multi-year grants totaling more than $2.9 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study virtual reality as an opioid-sparing tool for acute and chronic pain. The grants will enable the company to advance two clinical trial programs respectively with Geisinger and Cleveland Clinic, studying two of its virtual reality therapeutic platforms, RelieVRx™ and EaseVRx™. The NIDA funded trials will help inform the Company's regulatory pathway with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The grants are a result of AppliedVR’s following applications, both of which were respectively awarded in September 2019.