Project Grant R21AA032575
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded Research Triangle Institute $1,411,804 on September 20, 2025, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to conduct a hybrid implementation effectiveness cluster-randomized trial of Better Informed Parents Keeping Adolescents Safe from Alcohol (BIPAS), a mobile-delivered digital intervention designed to help parents prevent early-onset alcohol use in children. The study will expand BIPAS reach by translating the intervention...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded the University of Texas at Arlington $720,437 on May 1, 2026, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to conduct a hybrid Type 1 effectiveness-implementation trial evaluating parent-based interventions for adolescent alcohol prevention that incorporate social media content and personalized feedback. The research addresses the gap between evidence that alcohol parent-based interventions reduce adolescent drinking and the...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., $248,959 on September 12, 2025, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to conduct a five-year longitudinal study examining reciprocal associations between brain function and alcohol use trajectories in adolescents and young adults. The recipient will assess prospective long-term associations between reward processing, cognitive control, and alcohol use patterns using two large...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded Children's Research Institute $648,180 on June 20, 2026, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to investigate mechanisms and potential pharmacotherapy of neurocognitive deficits in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. The research examines the long-term neurobehavioral impact of prenatal alcohol exposure, with focus on apolipoprotein E (APOE) signaling in the motor cortex as a therapeutic target. The project builds on...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded Texas A&M University $237,595 on July 20, 2026, for a Project Grant (R21AA031130) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to investigate the relationship between maternal identity, social group identification with alcohol use, and maternal drinking and parenting behaviors. The research examines whether the cultural phenomenon of the "wine mom"—which frames drinking as socially acceptable within...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded the University of Pittsburgh $711,838 on August 3, 2026, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to conduct research identifying shared and unique mechanisms driving alcohol and eating cognitions and behaviors in early to middle adolescence through a longitudinal study titled Project READY (Research on Eating and Alcohol Development in Youth). The research examines how problematic alcohol use and binge-type eating...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded $167,500 in Project Grant funding to the University of Massachusetts Medical School on September 17, 2025, through the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) for a research study investigating sex differences in excessive alcohol use patterns across young adulthood and middle age. The research will utilize longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to examine how...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded Weill Medical College of Cornell University $591,468 on September 1, 2026, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to conduct longitudinal neuroimaging analysis identifying neural risk factors for drinking onset in young adulthood. The recipient will apply machine learning analysis to nine years of longitudinal neuroimaging, behavioral, and neuropsychological data from 466 adolescents (baseline ages 12–18 years) enrolled in...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York $723,453 on July 10, 2026, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to conduct the Prenatal Alcohol Gene-by-Exposure (PAGE) Study, examining the roles of maternal-child genetic profiles in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. The study will perform whole-genome sequencing on both mothers and children, along with methylomic, transcriptomic, and phenotypic analysis to...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center $160,744 on March 9, 2026, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to investigate electrophysiological mechanisms of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) effects on cognitive control. The project combines translational touchscreen testing and in vivo electrophysiology to determine how PAE impairs executive function domains in mouse models. The research hypothesizes that...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee $413,383 on July 16, 2026, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to conduct a meta-analytic structural equation modeling study examining mechanisms of parenting on adolescent alcohol use. The recipient will conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of empirical studies targeting U.S. adolescents aged 10 to 18, synthesizing evidence on the influence of alcohol-specific parenting factors (alcohol provision, attitudes, rules) and general parenting factors (monitoring, support) on adolescent alcohol use. The study will examine alcohol-specific cognitions—including alcohol-related behavioral beliefs, normative beliefs, and control beliefs—as mediators between parenting and drinking behavior. The work will employ dominance analysis to rank the relative importance of parenting and cognitive factors in predicting adolescent alcohol use and explore whether these relationships vary by participant and study characteristics. This research addresses a gap in understanding how altering alcohol-specific cognitions may efficiently and effectively influence adolescent alcohol use decision-making within the framework of the reasoned action approach. The award is classified as a Project Grant, a mechanism under which NIAAA supports research to develop fundamental knowledge applicable to improved treatment methods and prevention strategies for alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. Performance will occur in Wisconsin. The period of performance runs from July 16, 2026, to June 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $413.4k | 7/27/26 |