Congratulations to principal investigators Sean P. Farris, PhD, and Gregg E. Homanics, PhD, who will receive U01 funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for the project “Epigenetic Regulation of Neuroimmune Pathways.” As part of the Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism Neuroimmune consortium, this collaborative research project will focus on the contribution of long non-coding RNAs to molecular adaptations in the neuroimmune system and the development of alcohol use disorder (AUD).
AUD negatively affects the lives of millions of people worldwide. Chronic exposure to ethanol alters molecular pathways throughout the central nervous system, including aberrant neuroimmune signaling. This new project aims to broaden the world’s understanding of epigenetic regulation of the neuroimmune system in AUD and determine molecular adaptations underlying excessive ethanol exposure.