NIAAA T32 postdoctoral fellow Samantha Portis, PhD from the Clinical Neuroscience Haass-Koffler's Lab presented a poster entitled "Characterization of Alpha-1 Receptors in Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder" at the 59th Conference of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) on December 8th, 2020!

A brief synopsis from Dr. Portis: 

On Monday, December 7th, 2020, Sara Becker, Ph.D., formally received the 2020 G. Alan Marlatt Mid-Career Research Award from the Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. This annual award is given to mid-career researchers whose independent, programmatic research demonstrates scientific rigor and advances evidence-based clinical practice in the addictions.

The Clinical Neuroscience Haass-Koffler Lab has a new Neuroscience Graduate Program Student!

Join us in welcoming Dallece (Elena) Curley who will be working under the mentorship of Dr. Carolina L. Haass-Koffler!

A team of faculty and staff from the School of Public Health and the Warren Alpert School of Medicine including Sara Becker, Ph.D., Sarah Helseth, Ph.D, Melissa Clark, Ph.D., Daniel Squires, Ph.D., and Tony Spirito, Ph.D. have

Dr. Jasjit Singh Ahluwalia is senior author of a new JAMA Network Open study, published on Wednesday, Nov. 18, on the world’s first randomized clinical trial of fourth-generation pod e-cigarettes.

Dr. Carolina Haass-Koffler was interviewed by Indy (The College Independent Hill) on the rising fentanyl crisis in the US!

The article, "The Rise of King Ivory" was written by Gaya Gupta and illustrated by Yukti Agarwal.

Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS) invites you to our informational drop-in Virtual Open House for our postdoctoral training program on Monday, November 30, 2020, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET. Please join us for informal conversation with the training director and current postdoctoral fellows.

Dr. Jacob van den Berg recently pulished, "Recommendations for Intervention Content to Enhance HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake among Men Who have Sex with Men Receiving Care at Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics" in Journal of Men's Health! 

Highlight from the PrEP intervention article (Nunn et al.),