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  Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., of Yale University has won the 2023 Bowles Award from the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. She visited the Center on May 7 and 8 and presented a lecture entitled “Stress Neurocircuit Disruption Rescue to Improve Alcohol Binge and Relapse Outcomes.” Dr. Sinja is the Foundations...

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Hoffman, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Clyde Hodge’s lab, for receiving a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the NIAAA. The prestigious K99/R00 award provides 2 years of support for Dr. Hoffman’s continued postdoctoral research at UNC (K99 phase) followed by 3 years of independent funding...

Congratulations to Roland Seim, a graduate student in Dr. Leon Coleman’s lab, for receiving the 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award in recognition of his academic excellence and STEM field achievements. Mr. Seim is a PhD candidate in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine. He is studying the...

An article by BCAS members Ryan Vetreno, Liya Qin, Leon Coleman, and Fulton Crews has been recognized as among the most downloaded 2021 articles published in the academic journal Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research (ACER). The article, “Increased Toll-like Receptor-MyD88-NFκB-Proinflammatory neuroimmune signaling in the orbitofrontal cortex of humans with alcohol...

Harold “JR” Haun, postdoctoral fellow at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, has been recognized by the Research Society on Alcohol as a 2023 Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award finalist. Dr. Haun, who is part of the Kash Lab, is recognized for his abstract entitled Septal nociceptin/orphanin-FQ modulation of binge-like...

BCAS faculty member Joyce Besheer has been recognized for excellence in mentoring. She was recognized by the UNC School of Medicine’s Office of Graduate Education for her long-term commitment supporting BBSP students and other trainees. Besheer, a professor with appointments in the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies and the Department...

Christian Hendershot, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, was quoted in a February 2023 New York Times article about a diabetes drug that, for some, curbs the desire to drink. The article states, “…findings from animal research often do not translate directly to humans, said Christian...

A 2007 paper co-authored by BCAS faculty Liya Qin and Fulton Crews is the most-cited paper to ever appear in the journal Glia. The paper, Systemic LPS Causes Chronic Neuroinflammation and Progressive Neurodegeneration, is available here.

BCAS faculty members Jian Zou, Leon Coleman, and Fulton Crews were recognized by academic publisher WIley for their article “Extracellular microvesicles promote microglia-mediated pro-inflammatory responses to ethanol,” published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research in August 2021. This article has been recognized as the most-cited article published in that journal...

A research collaboration between clinical and preclinical investigators in the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine, led by BCAS Associate Director Leslie Morrow, PhD, found that a drug for post-partum depression works by inhibiting systemic inflammatory pathways. Read more here.