The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Dougherty, Donald M
Funded by
NIH-ALCOHOL ABUSE & ALCOHOLISM
Collaborating Institutions
UMB
This renewal extends our work during the last award period and seeks to translate these findings to thecriminal justice system. Our accomplishments include: (a) developing methods for processing transdermalalcohol concentration data that yield clinically-meaningful quantification of drinking; (b) demonstratingcontingency management can be successfully implemented using transdermal alcohol monitors and thatcontingency management can produce sustained reductions in heavy drinking in non-treatment-seekingproblematic drinkers; and (c) establishing collaborations within the judicial system.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Tumanov, Alexei V
Funded by
NIH-ALLERGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Lung pathology is a significant cause of the morbidity and mortality associated with acute respiratory virus infection. Respiratory viruses, such as influenza virus not only cause damage to the epithelium, but activate immune defense mechanisms. Although these immune mechanisms are employed to destroy and remove infected cells in an attempt to clear the virus, they can also promote lung pathology. However, the key cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the balance between protection and tissue damage during acute viral infection remain poorly understood.
