Project Grant Q184A050295

This Project Grant award of $720,043 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (CFDA 93.273 - Alcohol Research Programs) is funding a randomized clinical trial to examine the efficacy of the electronic alcohol intervention eCHECKUP TO GO combined with a brief parent-based intervention to reduce high school student drinking. The goal is to expand on prior research showing the promise of web-based personalized feedback interventions and brief parent-based interventions in...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $456,600.00 to Wayne State University to establish sustainable infrastructure for multi-tiered substance use disorder (SUD) prevention programs in high schools. The project, titled "Reducing Addiction through Prevention Infrastructure Development (RAPID)", focuses on adapting and refining a multi-phase implementation...

The Akron-Newstead Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition (ANDAC) received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program (CFDA 93.276). The grant aims to reduce substance use prevalence among youth in the Akron-Newstead community by addressing health disparities and enhancing access to drug-free lifestyle services. ANDAC will utilize evidence-based...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a $1,742,166 Project Grant under CFDA 93.273 - Alcohol Research Programs to the Trustees of Boston University, doing business as Boston University Medical Campus. The grant supports a comprehensive evaluation to assess the associations of state alcohol taxation and related policy environment with state-level alcohol treatment facilities capacity and key alcohol use disorder (AUD) health service outcomes. The project...

The Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC) received a $930,261 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839). The AKSAFE project aims to reduce violence and improve mental health support across 18 underserved school districts in Alaska. Key activities include implementing anonymous reporting systems, providing culturally responsive restorative practices training, offering mental health first aid training,...

This $673,500 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will fund Amygdala Neurosciences, Inc. to develop new, potent, selective, and reversible inhibitors of aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. The goal is to implement an innovative screening technology to discover novel compounds that reduce craving and alcohol consumption by selectively inhibiting ALDH2 in a reversible manner, avoiding...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), awarded a $390,454 Project Grant to Envisbio LLC to develop novel therapeutic aptamers targeting phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B) for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD). The project aims to identify and characterize PDE4B-specific aptamers that can modulate PDE4B activity, with the goal of advancing these modulators into in vivo testing and eventual human clinical trials for...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (CFDA 93.273 Alcohol Research Programs) will provide $282,353 to the Public Health Institute to conduct a secondary data analysis project on "Blood Alcohol Content Limit Laws and Alcohol-Related Outcomes." The project aims to examine how blood alcohol content (BAC) limit laws for driving are related to alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality outcomes in the general population, as well as...

This $306,860 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, aims to develop and test a prototype of an online alcohol prevention game for 13-15 year olds. The game will focus on strengthening psychosocial protective factors, such as social skills, personal values, and perceptions about alcohol use among peers, to deter the onset and progression of adolescent alcohol misuse. The...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $1,000,000 STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) grant to Allendale County Public Schools (Allendale, SC) to implement a comprehensive school violence prevention and response initiative. The 3-year project period will enable Allendale County Schools to: (1) expand access to behavioral health services and support staff for students in crisis; (2) promote a positive school climate and enhance safety through...