National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Concept Title: Model Continuums of Care Initiative (MCCI) to Advance Health Equity Among Women and Girls in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Marginalized Communities Authors: Deidra Roach MD, Division of Treatment and Recovery Purpose: MCCI is a multi-ICO (ORWH, NHLBI, NIAAA, NIMH, NIDA, NIMHD, NICHD, NIDDK) implementation and dissemination science initiative to advance racial equity and end health disparities in racial/ethnic...

Open Funding Opportunities Omnibus Solicitation NIAAA offers funding through the PHS 2023-2 Omnibus Solicitation program announcement, as well as targeted Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) and several resources for additional technical assistance, commercialization R&D support, and training programs. Standard due dates are April 5, September 5, and January 5 or the next business day. SBIR ( PA-23-231 ) (R43/R44 Clinical...

George Kunos MD. , PhD. Chief National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism National Institutes of Health 5625 Fishers Lane, Room 2S-24:MSC 9413 Bethesda MD 20892-9413 telephone: +1 301.443.2069 fax: +1 301.480.0257 e-mail: gkunos@mail.nih.gov Mission Statement The Biology and Functions of the Endocannabinoid System Endocannabinoids are lipid-like mediators discovered in the 1 990s that bind to cannabinoid receptors to trigger...

NIH-funded study provides hope for noninvasive detection of early liver disease. What: A new compound that binds to, and enables MRI imaging of, liver cells in the early stage of disease, has been developed by scientists supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the NIH. Researchers report that, in imaging studies of animal models...

Thu, 02/06/2020 - 12:00

Thu, 02/06/2020 - 12:00

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...

April 15, 2020

NIH-supported, multi-institute research program will generate robust data about how young brains mature. With nearly $290M of new funding for seven years to research institutions around the country, the National Institutes of Health renewed its commitment to the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study , the largest long-term study of brain development and child health ever conducted in the United...

Fri, 04/30/2010 - 12:00

Fri, 04/30/2010 - 12:00

Drinking may harm adolescents' ability to concentrate and to understand spatial relationships. A recent study led by Susan Tapert at the University of California, San Diego compared the standardized test scores of 76 12 to 14 year old kids with their scores after about three years. At the three-year follow-up, 36 of the kids had begun drinking at moderate to...

Tue, 08/06/2013 - 12:00

Tue, 08/06/2013 - 12:00

Recent research from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) sheds new light on habitual behaviors, specifically the circuits in the brain that allow mice to break from routine actions. Such shifting between old habits and new behavior aimed at accomplishing a particular goal are critical to flexible decision-making in everyday life. It also has important implications for...

Yu-Hong Lin, Ph.D. Staff Scientist Telephone: +1 301.443.9031 Fax: +1 301.594.0035 e-mail: Yuhong.Lin@nih.gov Dr. Lin’s research focuses on understanding the effect of dietary fat on the metabolism of essential fatty acids in vivo and in vitro employing stable isotope tracer techniques coupled with gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry. She examines both humans and animals with physiological and pathophysiological conditions such as...

Xin Jin, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, received the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award from the Society for Neuroscience today during the society’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The $25,000 prize is awarded annually to two young scientists whose research includes significant...

April 23-24, 1998 • Ramada Inn • Bethesda, Maryland Abstracts Meta-Analysis of Validated Cessation in Randomized Controlled Trials Patricia Dolan Mullen, Dr.P.H. From the Center for Health Promotion Research and Development, University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas Of more than 30 reports of findings from evaluations of pregnancy smoking cessation interventions (PSC) in "developed" countries, 16 were...

Voluntary movements involve the coordinated activation of two brain pathways that connect parts of deep brain structures called the basal ganglia, according to a study in mice by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The findings, which challenge the classical view of basal ganglia function, were published online...

Background: Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) led by CAPT Joseph R. Hibbeln, M.D., teamed with researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Md., to analyze a sample of suicide deaths among U.S. military personnel on active duty between 2002 and 2008. The researchers compared levels of omega-3 fatty...

January 10, 2023

Scientific Diversity Officer (Multiple Positions within multiple NIH Institutes/Centers) National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland U.S. Department of Health and Human Services THE POSITION: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), is seeking applications from exceptional candidates with expertise in the science and business of building organizational diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA), as well as experience in clinical research and...

An experimental compound appears to improve metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity, according to a preliminary study led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. A report of the study, which was conducted with obese mice, appears online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. “This is a promising early step toward a treatment for some of the serious health...

In humans, throwing a ball, typing on a keyboard, or engaging in most other physical activities involves the coordination of numerous discrete movements that are organized as action sequences. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the Gulbenkian Institute in Portugal have identified brain activity in mice that can signal the initiation and termination of newly learned action sequences...

We are profoundly saddened at the passing of Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek last week, at age 84.

Table 12. Driver’s alcohol involvement 1 in fatal traffic crashes, according to sex and age, United States, 1998 and 2004. Sex and age Drivers 1998 2004 Total Alcohol-involved Total Alcohol-involved Number Percent Number Percent Both sexes Under 16 361 56 15.4 345 48 14.0 16–20 7,767 1,721 22.2 7,755 1,772 22.8 21–24 5,613 2,100 37.4 6,413 2,507 39.1 25–29 6,211...

Table 11. Percentage distributions of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level among alcohol-involved drivers 1 , according to sex and age, United States, 1998 and 2004. Sex, year, and age BAC level 2 0.01–.04 0.05–.07 0.08–.09 0.10–.14 0.15–.19 0.20–.24 0.25–.29 0.30+ Both Sexes 2004 Under 21 10.6 10.6 9.5 26.9 21.4 13.8 5.2 1.9 21–24 7.7 7.9 6.8 24.1 24.7 17.3...

Scientists have identified new genes and pathways that influence an individual’s typical pattern of brain electrical activity, a trait that may serve as a useful surrogate marker for more genetically complex traits and diseases. One of the genes, for example, was found to be associated with alcoholism. A report of the findings by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol...