A team of University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) researchers in the College of Medicine recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award to study how genetic differences may explain why some people are more susceptible to opioid addiction than others.
Hao Chen, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, and Toxicology, and Megan Mulligan, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics, received $1.7 million for their project titled, “Reduced complexity mapping of oxycodone self-administration and stress responsiveness in rats.”
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- June 5: EurekAlert!
- June 5: The Medical News