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Startrek: The Next Generation of Alcohol Researchers. A Perspective from Markus Heilig, 2019 Recipient of the ESBRA Manfred Lautenschläger—European Alcohol Research Award

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: This present issue of Alcohol and Alcoholism, the official Journal of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA), features a special section on the Young Investigator Award symposium held during the 2019 ESBRA meeting in Lille, France. The four papers in this section describe work by promising young European scientists, including two basic scientists, a clinical researcher and a physician scientist. Individually, each of the papers reports important advances in the understanding of alcohol addiction. Jointly, they highlight the interdisciplinary nature of alcohol research, and point to the importance of investing in coming generations of investigators who can pursue this research, in a manner that harnesses the full armamentarium of modern neuroscience, and beyond. Work by Domi et al. (2021) elegantly exemplifies how an important clinical problem, co-dependence on alcohol and nicotine, can be brought into the animal lab to allow an analysis of underlying mechanisms, in...

Source: Alcohol and Alcoholism

DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agaa140

Author: Markus Heilig

Institution: Linköping University

Language: English

Topic: Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism