Peris receives a three-year grant for $752,250
Joanna Peris, Ph.D., and an associate professor in the department of pharmacodynamics, has received a three-year grant for $752,250 from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Her research focuses on the neurochemical mechanisms of ethanol addiction and how neurotransmission is altered in brain regions that are highly implicated in the alcohol addiction process when alcohol consumption escalates.
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