{"id":28279,"date":"2026-06-11T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=28279"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:19:30","slug":"laura-ferguson-receives-young-investigator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/laura-ferguson-receives-young-investigator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Ferguson receives Young Investigator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><p class=\"lead\">Congratulations to Dr.<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/directory\/laura-ferguson-phd\/\">Laura Ferguson<\/a><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0on receiving a Young Investigator Award\u00a0at the <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Volterra International Conference on Alcoholism and Stress<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25425\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/09\/LauraFerguson-CR2-300.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Ferguson, PhD\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/09\/LauraFerguson-CR2-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/09\/LauraFerguson-CR2-300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Laura Ferguson, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This recognition highlights her outstanding contributions to alcohol research and her promising work on human Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) biomarkers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheels.live\/fergusonlab\/\">Ferguson Laboratory<\/a> investigates the molecular and systems level mechanisms that drive alcohol use disorder and related neuropsychiatric conditions. They are particularly interested in how communication between the brain and periphery influences vulnerability to addiction and shapes treatment outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ferguson received the award at the Volterra International Conference on Alcoholism and Stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":25425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-featured","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/09\/LauraFerguson-CR2-300.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/09\/LauraFerguson-CR2-300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/09\/LauraFerguson-CR2-300.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/09\/LauraFerguson-CR2-300.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/09\/LauraFerguson-CR2-300-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Laura Ferguson, PhD","category_details":[{"name":"Faculty News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/faculty-news\/"},{"name":"Featured News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/featured\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28282,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28279\/revisions\/28282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}