NIH awards University of Richmond psychology professor $885,739 grant for alcohol research
October 10, 2008
The National Institutes of Health-National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has awarded Kristen Lindgren, assistant professor of psychology at University of Richmond, a two-part, five-year, $885,739 grant to complete alcohol abuse research.
Lindgren's project, "Retraining Automatic Biases Related to Problem Drinking in College Students," will include an initial award of $192,796 for two years of mentored support. She will investigate behavioral approaches related to the cause and prevention of alcohol use disorders. Her mentors are professors at the universities of Washington and Virginia.
The remaining $692,943 will be used to conduct three years of study on the viability of retraining automatic processes in reducing alcohol consumption and problems.
The grant is part of the NIH Pathway to Independence Program, an initiative to provide new energy and ideas in medical research by offering promising postdoctoral scientists both mentored and independent research support from the same award.