The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports a broad-based Alcohol Research Centers program to foster and conduct interdisciplinary, collaborative research on alcohol use disorder and the impact of alcohol on health and disease.
The NIAAA Centers Program provides leadership
in research, research methodology development and information dissemination on a wide variety of topics relevant to the Institutes mission.
These topics include, but are not limited to, investigations into the nature, etiology, genetics, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of alcohol use disorder, alcohol-related end organ diseases and their biomedical, psychosocial, and economic consequences across the lifespan.
Where applicable and of significant health concern, comorbidity can be included.
Centers are also major contributors to the development of new research methods, technologies, and approaches that sustain innovative goal-directed research.