National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

The NIAAA has joined the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) to assist investigators who are currently conducting, or who have an interest in initiating studies to identify genes that contribute to alcoholism and alcohol-related disorders. The CIDR provides a variety of genotyping and statistical genetics services for both human and animal studies to identify genes that contribute to human...

The SBIR and STTR programs are congressionally mandated set-aside programs for domestic small business concerns to engage in Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization. The STTR and SBIR programs are similar in that both programs seek to increase the participation of small businesses in federal R&D and to increase private sector commercialization of technology developed through...

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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism sadly announces the death of Richard L. Veech, MD, DPhil, Chief of the NIAAA Laboratory of Metabolic Control. Dr. Veech joined NIH after earning his bachelor’s and medical degrees at Harvard and his DPhil at Oxford under the tutelage of Hans Krebs. While in the process of completing his graduate work at...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE AGENDA Second Joint Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM, NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON DRUG ABUSE, AND NATIONAL CANCER ADVISORY BOARD February 5, 2014 Wednesday, 8:30 AM-12:30 PM Wilson Hall, Bldg One, NIH Rockville...

NIAAA DICBR Fellow's Committee In an effort to enrich training and mentoring of DICBR fellows, a Fellow's Committee was established within the Division in September 1999. The Committee's objective is to champion practices that will heighten the fellowship experience for all DICBR-sponsored trainees. Related sites FelCom - NIH Fellows Committee The NIH Fellows Committee consists of representatives from each institute...

Date: Friday, June, 19, 2015 Location: San Antonio, TX Grand Hyatt, San Antonio Room: Travis C/D Time: 2-5pm Note: space is limited to 50 participants; please RSVP by May 1, 2015 to M. Reilly at reillymt@mail.nih.gov. Purpose: to bring together (Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures) LINCS 1 scientists and scientists from the alcohol research community to explore how LINCS...

Dr. Faye Calhoun was recently named deputy director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "Dr. Calhoun brings extensive experience and expertise to her new position," says NIAAA Director Ting-Kai Li, M.D. "I am confident her imaginative and creative leadership will help the Institute address future challenges in...

October 16, 2014

NIH announces 11 awards funded across three Institutes More than $11 million over three years will be used to support research exploring the use of social media to advance the scientific understanding, prevention, and treatment of substance use and addiction. The awards are funded through the Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH (CRAN), an NIH consortium involving the National Institute...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered a gene mutation in fruit flies that alters sensitivity to alcohol. The findings, reported in the October 6 issue of the journal Cell, may have implications for human studies seeking to understand innate differences in people’s tolerance for alcohol . The research was supported by the National Institute on...

Mouse study advances knowledge of habitual behavior pathophysiology Daily activities involve frequent transitions between habitual behaviors, such as driving home, and goal-directed behaviors, such as driving to a new destination on unfamiliar roads. An inability to shift between habitual and non-habitual behaviors has been implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), addiction, and other disorders characterized by impaired decision-making. In a new...

Many people admitted to hospitals in the U.S. have alcohol use disorders that go undetected, according to a new study by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The finding, published in the April 12, 2004 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, underscores a need to screen...

Reporting in today's Early Edition of the August Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University describe a novel approach that may help scientists to better understand how alcohols and anesthetic drugs interact with certain brain proteins. The report also provides the strongest evidence to date that alcohols have specific...

Mechanisms for mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis in alcoholic and nonalcoholic fatty liver and tissue injury – Dr. Song and his lab members have studied regulations and roles of the two enzymes involved in metabolism of alcohol and acetaldehyde: the ethanol-inducible cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) and mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2). In particular, the functional implications of increased CYP2E1 and decreased ALDH2...

In this "First Steps to Al-Anon Recovery" podcast, you will hear an interview with Dr. George Koob, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), as he discusses the impacts of alcoholism on family members and friends. For more reasons to try Al-Anon, visit al-anon.org. Al-Anon members: Please remember to maintain anonymity in your comments and don't...

LIVER CIRRHOSIS MORTALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: NATIONAL, STATE, AND REGIONAL TRENDS, 2000–2019 Chiung M. Chen, M.A. Young-Hee Yoon, Ph.D. CSR, Incorporated 1 Suite 220 22375 Broderick Drive Sterling, VA 20166 February 2022 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service National Institutes of Health 1 CSR, Incorporated, operates the Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System (AEDS) under Contract No...

The mission of the lab is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the development and progression of fibrosis, to explore novel therapeutic targets and to develop effective pharmacotherapies for fibrotic disorders of different etiologies, including alcohol use disorders. We are particularly interested in pursuing a multi-target therapeutic approach to improve treatment efficacy by simultaneously engaging multiple pathogenic...

What we do The Section on Clinical Genomics and Experimental Therapeutics (CGET) conducts pre-clinical studies and translational clinical studies with focus on genomics and epigenetics related to the pathophysiology and treatment of alcohol use disorders and addictions. The pre-clinical work focuses on identifying molecular mechanisms involved in addictions, utilizing a wide array of methods including human population genetics, genome wide...

Our senses are essential for us to interact with the world. Our five senses–sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell work closely to enable the mind to understand its surroundings better. In humans, chemical senses mediate safety, nutrition, the sensation of pleasure, and general well-being. Taste, olfaction, and chemesthesis (refers to chemical irritation from the burning of chili peppers, the cooling...

Alcohol-Related Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations and Their Co-Occurring Drug-Related, Mental Health, and Injury Conditions in the United States: Findings from the 2006–2010 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) and Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) September 2013 National Institutes of Health National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 5635 Fishers Lane, MSC 9304 Bethesda, MD 20892‑9304 Acknowledgments This publication was developed by...

In this "First Steps to Al-Anon Recovery" podcast, you will hear an interview with Dr. Kenneth Warren, Acting Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), as he discusses current alcoholism research and how it involves family members affected by someone's alcoholism. For more reasons to try Al-Anon, visit al-anon.org. Al-Anon members: Please remember to maintain anonymity...