UNC-N.C. Central collaboration to study effects of alcohol-related pathologies among African-Americans

Researchers at UNC School of Medicine and N.C. Central University will share a $7.5 million grant to continue a project aimed at understanding and reducing alcohol-related pathologies among African-Americans.

The award, which comes from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will continue a research program investigating the molecular mechanisms of fetal alcohol pathology, alcoholic liver disease, alcohol-related cancers, including breast cancer, and the effects of alcohol and marijuana on brain stem cells and neurotoxicity.

“The UNC-NCCU partnership has been critical in establishing alcohol research as a focus at NCCU, providing new and exciting opportunities to students and faculty creating beneficial collaborations with UNC Bowles Center faculty,” says Gregory Cole, PhD, chairman of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at NCCU.

The partnership opens UNC research laboratories, core facilities and libraries to NCCU faculty.

Originally posted at Triangle Business Journal
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