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Katie Kaugars is a Post-bacc researcher at the National Institutes of Health in the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism. Katie is studying the genetics behind alcoholism, and how genes can contribute to the development of alcoholism. Katie works in the Laboratory of Behavioral & Genomic Neuroscience.
Spring 2016 Meetings of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD) : Wednesday, April 13, 9 am – 5 pm ICCFASD Work Group Meetings (closed to the public). Thursday, April 14, 8:30 am – 4 pm - ICCFASD Meeting (open to the public). Videocast: https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=18890&bhcp=1
The Open Session of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will take place on February 7, 2019 from 10 AM - 3 PM . You can view the agenda for more details and tune in to the webcast if you can't make it in person.
Lecture Title: Neurodevelopment and Alcohol: From Cell Adhesion to Cell Phones Presenter: Michael E. Charness, M.D. Chief of Staff, VA Boston Healthcare System; Faculty Associate Dean and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Dean and Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine For additional details visit www.niaaa.nih.gov/about-niaaa/our-work/research-portfolio/projects-init…
Jenica Tapocik is a Staff Neuroscientist in the Laboratory of Clinical & Translational Studies at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism. Jenica is studying addiction and is hoping to better understand how and why people become addicts. She is also studying the difference between the brains of addicted individuals and non-addicted individuals.
NIAAA will host a Twitter chat with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Chat with @NIAAAnews and @ASAMorg about medication options for alcohol use disorder. October 6 at 12:30pm # AlcoholChat This event takes place in conjunction with ASAM's State of the Art Course in Addiction Medicine , October 6 - 8 in Washington, DC.
The most recent issue of the NIAAA Spectrum is now available online . Among other topics, the current installment features stories on-- Sex differences in NIAAA’s alcohol research; the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study Highlights of recent CollegeAIM outreach efforts Dr. Ken Warren’s retirement; and Dr. Trish Powell’s appointment as Acting Deputy Director. Visit www.spectrum.niaaa.nih.gov for more.
NIAAA hosted a Twitter chat with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) on October 6, 2016 at 12:30pm. # AlcoholChat You can access the chat at https://storify.com/NIAAAnews/chat-medications-for-alcohol-use-disorder This event takes place in conjunction with ASAM's State of the Art Course in Addiction Medicine, October 6 - 8 in Washington, DC. Follow NIAAA at https://twitter.com/niaaanews
The National Institutes of Health will hold the third Joint Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Cancer Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse. When: Wednesday, February 4, 2015, at 9 AM Where: 5635 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852, Terrace Conference Rooms The meeting will be webcast on https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=15490&bhcp=1 To view...
With profound sadness, staff at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism note the passing of Loren (Larry) Parsons, Ph.D., of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders (CNAD) at The Scripps Research Institute. Colleagues remember Dr. Parsons as a brilliant neuroscientist, a dynamic leader in CNAD and a wonderful, well-loved human being. Dr. Parsons developed a spectacular...
Scientific Mission To learn more about how our genes affect vulnerability to alcoholism, NIAAA has funded the Collaborative Studies on Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) since 1989. Our goal is to identify the specific genes that can influence a person’s likelihood of developing alcoholism. About COGA COGA investigators have collected data on more than 2,255 extended families in which many members...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a formal appeals process to resolve disagreements between grant applicants and NIH review committees and/or NIH staff concerning the referral and peer review of grant applications. The NOT-OD-11-064: Appeals of NIH Initial Peer Review dated April 15, 2011 provides full information on the NIH policy on "Appeals of Scientific Peer Review". The NIH...
