Project Grant R41AA026794

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), funded under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), provides $399,293 to Echelon Biosciences Inc. to develop a prototype rapid point-of-care phosphatidylethanol (PEth) competitive lateral flow immunoassay. PEth is considered the most reliable long-term biomarker for detecting alcohol consumption, but current testing methods are costly and have slow turnaround times. The goal of this Phase I...

This 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 advance the understanding of the neural markers of incentive salience for alcohol cues and their relationship to real-world alcohol use behaviors. The $165,279 award, granted to the University of Washington, will leverage a combined laboratory-ambulatory study design to characterize the brain-behavior mechanisms driving...

This Project Grant award of $1,227,554.00 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) will fund a prospective examination of transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC) features as predictors of alcohol-related consequences and alcohol use disorders (AUDs) among 500 young adults. The research aims to: 1) examine TAC features as predictors of alcohol-related consequences, relative to ecological momentary assessment (EMA)...

This federal Project Grant award of $683,611 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) supports research to optimize the engagement and clinical outcomes of a "smart" digital therapeutic for alcohol use disorder (AUD). The project aims to embed a machine learning-based lapse prediction model into an existing digital therapeutic called A-CHESS and evaluate how different components of daily engagement messages...

The federal Project Grant award R00AA030665 was provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program. The $249,001 award, effective May 1, 2025, supports a study entitled "Study Aimed at Increasing Alcohol Abstinence (DEDICATE)" to be conducted by the University of Illinois. The key objectives of this project are to (1) test the efficacy of combining contingency management (CM) with...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) grant program, provides $262,406 to the University of Washington to develop and pilot test a user-customizable, personalized normative feedback intervention for alcohol harm reduction in young adults. The project involves two phases: (1) user-centered development and refinement of the web-based intervention through a rapid prototyping process,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) grant program, will evaluate the efficacy of a telehealth version of the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) intervention. The $708,556 award will support a study that compares the telehealth BASICS approach, delivered via the Zoom application, to the traditional in-person BASICS intervention and a...

This federal Project Grant award of $130,031 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) will support research examining the relationship between alcohol use, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and behavioral economic decision-making. The research will be conducted in two studies. Study 1 (K99 phase) will assess cross-sectional associations between these factors and determine factors predicting engagement with a remote...

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...

This Project Grant award of $1,320,881 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), will fund a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a smartphone-based intervention to reduce drinking among adults experiencing homelessness. The proposed project, titled "Efficacy of a Smartphone-Based Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention to Reduce Drinking Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness," will build...