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Inna Belfer, MD, PhD

Program Officer/Program Director
NIH/NCCIH
Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Dr. Belfer is a world-recognized expert in human chronic pain conditions, pain genetics, assessment of clinical pain, and pain-related traits. She began her career as a neurologist, then received extensive training in neurobiology and human genetics. For over 15 years, her primary research interests have been the relationship between gene polymorphisms and complex phenotypes such as pain, psychiatric disorders, and addictions. Her research focused on biobehavioral aspects of acute and chronic pain, sex influence on pain and analgesia, phenomics of human pain and genomic predictors of the transformation of acute pain into chronic condition. After an intramural post-doctoral clinical and research fellowship at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) she became a Staff Scientist at NIDCR Pain and Neurosensory Mechanisms Branch. Afterwards, she joined the University of Pittsburgh as Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Human Genetics and Director of the Molecular Epidemiology of Pain Program. In 2015, Dr. Belfer returned to DHHS, joining the Food and Drug Administration as a clinical reviewer for novel analgesics, evaluating clinical trial design and safety data, and analyzed trends and new scientific fields to assess the adequacy of clinical translational pain research including sex-specific factors controlling pain. During her clinical and scientific career Dr. Belfer focused specifically on women’s pain and women-specific genetic mechanisms of chronic pain. In 2017, this passion brought her to NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health where she served as Health Scientist Administrator and scientific lead for the Sex as Biological Variable (SABV) policy implementation core. In 2018, she joined the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) where she serves as a Program Officer/Program Director overseeing mechanistic studies on meditative movements interventions, multisensory interventions, and pain portfolios.

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