RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – A partnership between RTI International and the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $21.4 million from the NIH HEAL Initaitive to help researchers gather, prepare, and sustain data from more than 500 academic studies on addiction, opioid misuse, opioid treatment, and other research. The University of Chicago will collaborate on the project, as well, through the provision of a cloud-based platform that enables researchers to search the database of study results and data in order to inform research practices, policies, and programs. According to the initiative’s website, the goal of its research collaborations is to enhance pain management and improve treatment for opioid misuse and addiction.