Dr. Rory Fisher receives R01 from NIH/NIAAA

Rory A. Fisher, PhD, Professor of the Department of Pharmacology, with the collaboration of Dr. Nandakumar Narayanan, has been awarded a 5-year $2.0 million National Institutes of Health (NIAAA) R01 Research Grant entitled “RGS6 in mesolimbic circuits as a therapeutic target for alcohol use disorders”.   The goal of the research is to understand how Regulator of G protein signaling 6 (RGS6) functions in the mesolimbic circuit to promote alcohol seeking and reward behavior.

Date: 
Tuesday, July 3, 2018