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INDIANA ALCOHOL RESEARCH CENTER

Director: David W. Crabb, M.D.

Summary

The Indiana Alcohol Research Center (ARC) is a n NIH-funded specialized research center (P60) that focuses on the elucidation of the biomedical and psychosocial factors that contribute to alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Scientific researchers in the ARC are in the process of determining the biological and molecular basis for differences in the way people drink, and the consequences of heavy drinking. It provides selectively bred animals differing in alcohol preference as models of genetic predisposition to alcoholism, performs genotyping of enzymes of alcohol metabolism to assess the role those genes have in responses to alcohol, and is establishing proteomic services for alcohol researchers. The center is also highly involved in educating Indiana policy makers regarding the science behind diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism and other substance abuses, and in the training of health sciences students about the biology and social aspects of substance abuse.

School Affiliation

IU School of Medicine

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
545 Barnhill Dr.
EH 317
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

• Email: dcrabb@iupui.edu
• Website: http://medicine.iupui.edu/arc/
• Phone: 317.274.8438
• Fax: 317.274.1437

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