# Postdoctoral Training Program in Alcohol Studies

> **NIH AA T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · 2026 · $180,878

## Abstract

This renewal application is for five years of continued support of the Postdoctoral Training Program in Alcohol Studies at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (UConn Health). The program was established in 1980 and evolves with this renewal with transitions and additions among training faculty and new resources to meet the needs of the next generation of scientists committed to understanding and reducing harms from alcohol use and related consequences. To accomplish this, this program takes a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and cross-campus (UConn Health, University of Connecticut (UConn-Storrs)) approach with faculty representing numerous departments including psychiatry, computer science and engineering, behavioral sciences and community health, medicine, and public health sciences. Our program continues to be focused on alcohol. It also recognizes that alcohol use, intervention and treatment often occur in the context of other substance use and comorbidities, and program faculty have substantial expertise in these areas. Moreover, there is new attention to training opportunities in: mentoring, structural and interpersonal factors in alcohol use and misuse; data science; mobile technologies; and social media research. Further, while training faculty have considerable experience in mentoring, supplemental training in best practices in mentoring and contemporary issues is planned, for faculty and trainees. Throughout, an Executive Advisory Committee composed of internal and external members will contribute to program oversight and evaluation. This program provides three postdoctoral fellows with individualized and multimodal training for typically two and up to three years. Fellows will select from four Core Research Areas in clinical and translational research: (1) Intervention, Treatment and Recovery; (2) Etiology, Risk Factors and Comorbidities, (3) Health Services, Implementation Science, and Translational research, and (4) Gut Microbiome, Liver D

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11392343
- **Project number:** 5T32AA007290-43
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT
- **Principal Investigator:** SHEILA MARIE ALESSI
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AA
- **Fiscal year:** 2026
- **Award amount:** $180,878
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1980-07-01T00:00:00 → 2029-03-31T00:00:00

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11392343

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11392343, Postdoctoral Training Program in Alcohol Studies (5T32AA007290-43). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-06 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11392343. Licensed CC0.

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