Directory of Investigators Interested in Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders

This information is provided to help facilitate collaborations among investigators interested in the Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders. If you are interested in having your contact information posted please email Jonathan D. Pollock, Ph.D. at jpollock@mail.nih.gov.

Name and E-mail	Institution	Web Site	Additional Details
Adeluyi, Yi-Hsiang	Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute		NGS, GWAS, Non-coding variant function and targeted gene identification, 3D chromatin interactions, Gene regulatory circuits, Human primary cell gene regulatory landscapes, integrated genomics, AI-deep learning, musculoskeletal disorders, metabolic disorders, neurological and psychiatric disorders
Adeluyi, Adewale	University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy
Agrawal, Thomas	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Web site	Molecular evolution, molecular epidemiology, phylogeny, phylodynamics, HIV, infectious disease
Agrawal, Arpana	Washington University School of Medicine		Identify genetic, neurobiological and environmental underpinnings of SUD and comorbid relationships
Ai, Huiwang	University of Virginia	Web site	Protein based imaging sensors for metabolism and epigenetics
Akbarian, Schahram	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Web site	Cell-type specific epigenome and chromosomal contact mapping in human brain, including from subjects diagnosed with substance abuse and psychosis
Akil, Huda	University of Michigan		Genetic rodent models (rats and mice) of temperament and propensity to substance use and abuse, including opioids and psychostimulants. Whole genome and brain gene expression.
Alvarez-Carbonell, David	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine	Web site	Our research focuses on defining the molecular basis for HIV silencing, the signaling pathways used to reactivate latent HIV, the impact of drugs of abuse on the creation and reactivation of the latent viral reservoir in microglial cells, and the development of novel therapeutic approaches to attacking HIV latency.
Anholt, Robert	Clemson University		Behavioral genetics of substance use in Drosophila
Anthony , James C. (Jim)	Michigan State University		"Novel phenotypes” & artificial intelligence and deep learning; high-dimension association analysis and risk prediction analysis methods development
Ariza-Nieto, Magnolia	epiWELL, LLC.		Precision medicine diagnostic assays, aimed at improving the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of epigenetic abnormalities that cover a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses including dementias.
Arushi, Varshney	University of Michigan	Web site	Genetics of Gene expression regulation using integrative computational analyses of large human omics datasets
Atem, Folefac	UT Health Houston		Concomitant disease and the association between parent and offspring in hereditary and environmental influence diseases
Bacanu, Silviu-Alin	Virginia Commonwealth University	Web site	PostGWAS statistical analysis tools using only summary statistics: transcriptomic, proteomic, epigenomic
Bagley, Jared	Binghamton University		Neurogenetics of substance use disorders and related traits
Barr, Peter	Virginia Commonwealth University	Web site	Gene-environment interplay for substance use disorders
Baurley, James	BioRealm LLC	Web site	Prediction of SUD biomarkers and outcomes from genotypes and clinical data
Beam, Teresa	Manchester University		Pharmacogenetics of addiction
Ben-Shahar, Yehuda	Washington University in St. Louis	Web site	Drosophila neurogenetics, genetics of socioality, Drosophila as a model for the cellular basis for addiction
Benca-Bachman, Chelsie	Emory University	Web site	Behavioral genetics of psychopathology, cognition, and substance use
Bergen, Andrew	Oregon Research Institute; BioRealm, LLC		Epidemiology (clinical, genetic, molecular, pharmaco-) of Pain and Tobacco and Opioid Use Disorders and Treatment
Bi, Jinbo	University of Connecticut	Web site	Machine learning algorithm design and analysis of genetic and neurobiological data to understand substance use disorders
Bidlack, Jean	University of Rochester	Web site	Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), KLB, behavioral genetics, opioids
Bielas, Stephanie	University of Michigan
Bierut, Laura Jean	Washington University in St. Louis	Web site	Genetic discovery, population genetics, genetic regulation, pharmacogenetics for substance use disorder
Bogue, Molly	The Jackson Laboratory	Web site	Mouse Phenome Database (MPD)
Brennan, Caroline	Queen Mary, University of London	Web site	Zebrafish; nicotine; behavioural genetics
Briand, Lisa	Temple University	Web site	Glutamate receptor trafficking in mouse models of cocaine use disorder
Brieño-Enriquez, Miguel	University Of Pittsburgh/ Magee-Womens Research Institute		Mammalian Reproduction/ Meiosis/ Gaametogenesis/Transgenerational effects
Bryant, Camron	Boston University School of Medicine	Web site	Systems genetic analysis of addiction traits in mice
Bubier, Jason	The Jackson Laboratory	Web site	Microbiome, opioid respiratory depression, QTL, Complex Traits, Cross Species Functional genomics
Byrareddy, Siddappa	University of Nebraska Medical Center	Web site	HIV/SIV/SHIV, neuroAIDS, transmission, drugs of abuse, HIV cure, gut homing molecules, immunotherapy,
Cai, Haini	University of Georgia	Web site	Developmental gene regulation, chromatin structure and epigenetic mechanisms
Cates, Hannah	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai		Human and rodent epigenetics/transcriptomics/genetics of SUD; in vivo studies + in silico analysis of my and publicly available datasets
Chakraborty, Nabarun	DoD/ USACEHR/WRAIR
Chandra, Ramesh	University Of Maryland, Baltimore	Web site	Working toward translational studies to uncover novel molecular targets and brain circuits that can be targeted for antidepressant and anti-addiction therapies
Chatzinakos, Christos	Virginia Commonwealth University	Web site
Chen, Chaoping	Colorado State University	Web site	HIV-1 protease autoprocessing mechanism and drug discovery
Chen, Renchao	Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School	Web site
Chen, Jixin	Ohio University	Web site	Single-molecule fluorescence imaging; genome optical mapping.
Chen, Shuo	University of Mayrland, School of Medicine	Web site	Biostatistics, machine learning, statistical modeling for imaging and genetics with application to mental disorder and addiction
Chen, Shuo	University of Maryland, School of Medicine	Web site	Biostatistics, machine learning, statistical modeling for imaging and genetics with application to mental disorder and addiction
Chen, Hao	University of Tennessee Health Science Center		Behavioral genetics; rat genome analysis; rat models of substance abuse; nicotine self-administration (role of social learning, menthol as a conditioned cue); oral oxycodone self-administration;
Chesler, Elissa	The Jackson Laboratory	Web site	Behavioral genetics and genomics, multi-species convergent bioinformatics, systems genetics and advanced mouse populations in addiction, alcohol, pain and other behaviors, sex differences
Chidambaran, Vidya	Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center		Psychosocial, genomic and epigenetic factors influencing acute and chronic postsurgical pain
Choquet, Hélène	Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), Division of Research, Oakland, CA	Web site	Human genetics of complex traits and disorders, including alcohol and tobacco use, and substance abuse
Ciborowski, Pawel	University of Nebraska Medical Center		HIV, epigenetics, systems biology
Collins, Greg	University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	Web site	Behavioral pharmacology, compulsive drug self-administration, addiction-like phenotypes in rats
Conrad, Don	Oregon Health & Science University	Web site	Human genetics, rare disease, structural variation, non-human primate models
Corradin, Olivia	Whitehead Institute for Biomedical research	Web site	Noncoding variants in human disease, impact of haplotypes on gene expression and disease risk
Crane, Heidi	University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center 325 9th Ave, Box 359931, Seattle, WA 98104		Substance use and comorbidities among PLWH
Crist, Richard	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine		Pharmacogenetics/pharmacogenomics of methadone and buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder
Cruchaga, Carlos	Washington University School of Medicine	Web site	Multi-omics, system biology and Mendelian randomization to identify novel targets and biomarkers
Czachowski, Cristine	Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis		Behavioral pharmacology/rodent models of alcohol reinforcement
Damaj, M. Imad	Virginia Commonwealth University		Behavioral genetics of nicotine dependence mouse models- Behavioral genetics of Pain and neuropathy.
Dapp, Michael	University of Washington	Web site	HIV-1 latency and persistence, HIV-1 reservoirs, methamphetamine abuse
Datta, Udita	The Jackson Laboratory	Web site	Psychostimulant addiction; neurobiology of addiction; biobehavioral risk factors; pharmacogenetics
Dick, Danielle	Virginia Commonwealth University	Web site	Genes and environmental influences on substance use outcomes and externalizing behaviors
Dickson, Price	The Jackson Laboratory	Web site	Systems genetics of addiction
Ding, Yu-Shin	New York University School of Medicine		Protein-based in vivo molecular imaging
Dracheva, Stella	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Web site	Cell type-specific epigenetics [DNA (h)methylation, histone modifications, RNA editing] in healthy and diseased human brain: substance use disorders, schizophrenia, depression.
Duan, Jubao	University of Chicago/NorthShore University HealthSys	Web site
Dumond, Julie	UNC-Chapel Hill		Antiretroviral pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, pharmacology of aging, sex differences
Edenberg, Howard	Indiana Univ School of Medicine		Genetics of complex diseases, especially substance use disorders and bipolar disorder; Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
Ehringer, Marissa	University of Colorado Boulder	Web site	Human genetics of addiction, mouse models of addiction-related behaviors
El-Hage, Nazira	Florida International University		Autophagy, genetic and epigenetic regulation in HIV/substance abuse, neuroinflammation, humanized mouse model, nanomedicine
Elam, Kit	Arizona State University		Using polgenic risk scores to study evocative gene-environment correlations in pathways to substance use
Elam, Buchanan	University of Rhode Island		Biostatistics, epidemiology, HIV
Fabris, Dan	University at Albany	Web site	Epitranscriptomics; technologies for identification/characterization of RNA modifications; interactions between HIV infection and drugs of abuse
Fantegrossi, Bill	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)	Web site	Behavioral pharmacology of emerging drugs of abuse in mice and rats; reinforcing effects; discriminative stimulus effects; tolerance, dependence and withdrawal
Farris, Sean	The University of Texas at Austin	Web site	Behavioral genetics and genomics studies across species
Feng, Jian	Florida State University	Web site	Epigenetic regulation (especially DNA modifications and higher order genome organization) of addiction
Ferreira, Yvette	Golden Gateway Partners
Flaherty, Patrick	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Web site	Statistics, pharmacogenomics, machine learning, bioinformatics
Flentke, George	UNC Nutrition Research Center	Web site	Genetics of alcohol preference, metabolism; prenatal alcohol exposure
Freet, Christopher	Penn State University College of Medicine		fNIR imaging and cue-induced activation in SUD
Fries, Gabriel	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Web site	DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation; post-mortem brain tissue; suicide
Ganesh, Suhas	Yale University	Web site	Epigenetic mechanisms and cellular phenotype of cannabis exposure
Gao, Wen-Jun	Drexel University College of Medicine	Web site	Synaptic signaling and regulation of prefrontal cortex: impact on cognition and social behaviors
Garavan, Hugh	University of Vermont	Web site	Functional and structural imaging of addiction
Garcia Gonzalez, Judit	Queen Mary, University of London	Web site	Zebrafish; statistical genetics; nicotine; psychosis; psychiatric commorbidities
Gautam, Aarti	U S Army Center for Environmental Health Research		Systems biology, PTSD, stress, data analysis, epigenetics, addiction
Geurts, Aron	Medical College of Wisconsin	Web site	Genetic engineering, especially creating transgenic and gene knockout/knockin rat models
Ghanbari, Reza	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Web site	Metabolomics Analysis of Opium Abusers Using Untargeted Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)
Goldberg, Lisa	Penn State University	Web site	Systems genetics, behavioral genetics, mouse models of addiction
Gould, Thomas	Penn State University	Web site	Nicotine, Alcohol, addiction, learning
Govind, Varan	University of Miami, Miami		Substance use (alcohol, marijuana, opioid, etc.) , HIV, Neurodegenerative diseases (ALS, Alzheimer's disease), MRI (DTI, DKI, MRS, etc.), Microbiomes
Grahame, Nicholas	Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis		Behavioral genetics of alcohol and drug abuse using animal models
Grassi-Oliveira, Rodrigo	Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)		Cocaine, Trauma, Epigenetics, Translational, Women, Early Life Stress, HIV, Childhood Maltreatment, Immunology
Grisel, Judy	Bucknell University	Web site	Factors influencing the neural liability (causes, not consequences) of addiction
Guda, Babu	University of Nebraska Medical Center	Web site	Computational analysis of multi-omics datasets, bioinforamtics and systems biology
Hammamieh, Rasha	US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command		PTSD, animal models, systems biologym, pain, stress, multi-omics, epigenetics, metbolomics
Hamra, F. Kent	UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas		Rat Genetic Engineering, Rat Genetics, Germline Gene Targeting, Spermatogenesis, Reproductive Endocrinology
Han, Kyung-An	University of Texas at El Paso	Web site	Behavioral plasticity, inhibitory control, impulsivity, alcohol abuse and addiction, dementia, neuromodulatory mechanisms, gene-environmental interactions, pavlovian and operant conditioning, behavioral disinhibition, sensitization
Hancock, Dana	RTI International	Web site
Hardiman, Gary	Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland	Web site
Harris, Andrew	Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute; University of Minnesota	Web site	Preclinical models of individual differences in opioid dependence
Heller, Elizabeth	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Med.	Web site	Neuroepigenetics; Preclinical models of SUDs, Stress/Depression, Learning/Memory
Hinds, Terry	University of Toledo Health Science Campus		My lab investigates nuclear receptors, which are ligand-activated transcription factors that control a myriad of genetics as a response to nutrition and metabolism. Over the past several years, and currently, we have been studying how nutrients from the diet and stress hormones (fatty acids, glucocorticoids, e.g., cortisol) regulate obesity and diabetes. Recently, we discovered an unexpected role for bilirubin as a ligand for nuclear receptors (PPARalpha) to attenuate metabolic diseases. Before our findings, bilirubin was only considered as an antioxidant and toxic bile substance with no other signaling function. We are interested in the bilirubin liver-gut signaling axis and how the microbiome catabolism of bilirubin in obesity and alcohol-induced liver damage. New work in my lab has found electronic cigarette (E-cig)-nicotine induced metabolic dysfunction (via nuclear receptors) from an altered liver-brain signaling axis. Nicotine addiction and insulin-resistant diabetic pathways for unknown reasons have some overlapping signaling mechanisms, and we are interested in how these relate to metabolic dysfunction. Overall, my lab looks at how nuclear receptors signal for organismal metabolic balance and glucose homeostasis.
Hoffman, Paula	Univ of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Pharmacology	Web site	Transcriptome, networks, hybrid rat diversity panel, alcohol related phenotypes
Hoffman, William	VA Portland Health Care System; Oregon Health & Science University		Methamphetamine Use Disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder, Co-addiction, neuroimaging and machine learning techniques to classify diagnosis and predict outcomes. TAAR1 genetic influences on MA craving and neuroimaging.
Hofford, Rebecca	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Web site	Environmental factors contributing to substance use generally; microbiome-gut-brain axis signaling in addiction specifically
Hong, Mingi	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Web site	Gene-environmental interaction during craniofacial midline development; especially roles of Cdon and its interactions with alcohol
Hu, Guoku	University of Nebraska Medical Center	Web site	Substance use disorders; exosomes, non-coding RNAs
Huang, Jun	University of Chicago	Web site	T cell immunology
Iwase, Shigeki	University of Michigan Medical School	Web site	Histone methylation dynamics in the brain
Jee, Changhoon	University of Tennessee Health Science Center	Web site	Genetics and behavior; Neuromodulation of compulsive behavior (sexual compulsion, compulsive alcohol seeking, nicotine preference)
Jentsch, J. David	Binghamton University	Web site	Neurocircuitry and genetics of impulsivity, reinforcement learning and drug self-administration
Johnson, Eric Otto	RTI International	Web site	Genetics and gene regulation; Opioid Addiction, Nicotine Dependence, HIV
Johnson, Emma	Washington University School of Medicine		Human genetics, substance use genetics, comorbidity of substance use disorders and other psychopathology
Jones, Jermaine	Columbia University Medical Center	Web site	Abuse potential of Opioids/Medications Development/Pharmacogenetics
Kamens, Helen	Penn State University	Web site	Genetic and environmental factors that contribute to substance use
Kaprio, Jaakko	University of Helsinki	Web site	Genetics, epigenetics & genetic epidemiology of alcohol and nicotine
Karam, Caline	Columbia University		Genetics, molecular and cellular biology of psychostimulant action
Karam, Caline	Columbia University		Genetics, molecular and cellular biology of psychostimulant action
Karn, Jonathan	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine	Web site	Epigenetic control of HIV transcription, viral latency, HIV Cure
Kashanchi, Fatah	George Mason University	Web site	Human retroviruses, exosomes, Cannabidiol, Humanized Mouse model, Proteomics
Kaul, Marcus	University of California Riverside, School of Medicine	Web site	Cellular & molecular mechanisms of neurocognitive impairment and brain injury induced by HIV-infection and drug abuse, strategies of neuroprotection, translational research
Kechris, Katerina	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Kennedy, Pamela	University of California, Los Angeles
Kenny, Paul	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Web site	Molecular and cellular biology of drug addiction and alcoholism
Kidambi, Srivatsan	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Web site	Biomimetic Brain Models; Astrocytes and Neurons co-culture; Metabolism; Mitochondria
Kim, Sam-Moon	University of Pittsburgh	Web site	Genetic mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms and addiction
Krupitsky, Evgeny	National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, St.-Petersburg, Russia		Pharmacogenetics of alcoholism and addictions
Ksinan, Albert	Virginia Commonwealth University	Web site	Behavior genetics, alcohol use among youth, genetic basis of externalizing behavior, developmental psychology
Kumar, Vivek	The Jackson Laboratory	Web site	Mutagenesis methods, genomics, positional cloning, statistical genetics, computer vision, machine learning
Kumari, Meena	Kansas State University	Web site	Drugs of abuse and role of exosomes, RNA binding proteins and alcohol addiction
Kumari, Meena	Kansas State University	Web site	Alcohol addiction, opioid addiction, cannabis effects on brain cells, mRNA stability, exosomes
Lappalainen, Tuuli	New York Genome Center & Columbia University	Web site	Molecular effects of genetic variants in the human genome
Lawson, Kaycie	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center		Effects of Methamphetamine on HIV-1 pathobiology
Lawson, Gang	University of Washington, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education	Web site	Health informatics (software system design/development and data analytics), big data, information retrieval, database systems, data mining, and machine learning
Lee, Sulggi	University of California San Francisco	Web site	HIV+ meth use and viral transcription/reservoir
Lencz, Todd	Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Levine, Alan	Case Western Reserve University	Web site	Substance abuse and the immune response
Levy, Matthew	AddictID		Development of genomic microarray targeted specifically for SUD research
Li, Yanchun	Drexel University College of Medicine	Web site
Li, Jun	University of Michigan	Web site	Rat models of metabolic traits or substance abuse, germline mutation patterns in the human genome, single-cell genomic data analysis, cancer evolution in AML and TNBC, genetics of rare disorders
Liang, Xiaoyu	Yale University		Genetic and epigenetics on alcohol misuse, methodology development for population genetics.
Liddelow, Shane	NYU School of Medicine	Web site	Overall focus: comparison of glial cell function in physiology and pathology. NIDA specific focus: effects of DOA on astrocytes
Liu, Yunlong	Indiana University	Web site	Genomics, bioinformatics, gene regulation
Liu, Jingyu	Mind Research Network	Web site	Genetic and epigenetic association, contribution to brain imaging phenotypes associated with substance use and behavior
Liu, Dajiang	Penn State College of Medicine	Web site	Statistical genetics method development; functional and integrative genomics for understanding mechanisms of GWAS loci; GWAS meta-analysis for addiction related traits;
Liu, Philip	Mass General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School		We develop nanoparticle-directed gene imaging for neurological disorders and therapies. Current animal models are cerebral ischemia, drug addiction, retinal repair.Nanoparticles target and detect intracellular DNA (genes), mRNA (expression), miR and proteins of the CNS.
Logan, Ryan	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine		Genomics, epigenetics, addiction and circadian rhythms
Lomniczi, Alejandro	Oregon Health & Science University		Epigenetics and neuroendocrine development
Loraine, Anna	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Web site	Interactive visualization of human and model organism genetic data
Lu, Qing	Michigan State University	Web site	Artificial intelligence and deep learning; high-dimension association analysis and risk prediction analysis of substance use and dependence genetic data
Luo, Rui	University of Memphis		To identify the epigenetic change which influence by maternal and grandmaternal smoking
Ma, Charles	University of Maryland School of Public Health		Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, multi-omics, machine learning, high-dimensional data analysis, variable selection
Mackey, Scott	University of Vermont		Neuroimaging, imaging genetics, brain endophenotypes
Maher, Brion	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health		Human genetics/epigenetics of SUDs primarily in PWIDs
Mahmoudi, Morteza	Harvard Medical School; Michigan State University		Nanomedicine; development of new approaches to analyze blood plasma proteins for early detection of disease; sensor array technologies
Maixner, William	Duke University	Web site	Translational Pain Medicine
Mallard, Travis	University of Texas at Austin		Behavioral/statistical genetics of substance use and serious mental illness
Manzoni-D’Arpino, Aimee	Addiction Policy Forum	Web site	Substance Use Disorder education and advocacy
Manzoni-D’Arpino, Thomas	Wake Forest School of Medicine		Addiction, pain mechanisms
Marcondes, Maria Cecilia	San Diego Biomedical Research Institute	Web site	Neurological and metabolic disorders in individuals with HIV and in substance users
Markunas, Christina	RTI International	Web site	Epigenetics; Genetics; DNA methylation biomarker development of substance use; Epigenetic effects of paternal exposures
Martin-Fardon, Remi	Scripps Research	Web site	Neurobiological basis of chronic vulnerability to relapse
Mash, Deborah	Nova Southeastern University Patel College of Medicine		Transcriptomics of Substance Use Disorders; Human Brain Biorepository
Mayfield, R. Dayne	The University of Texas at Austin	Web site	Genetics and transcriptomics of substance use disorders
Mckiver, Bryan	Virginia Commonwealth University		Behavioral genetics of nicotine dependence mouse models- Behavioral genetics of Pain and neuropathy.
McLaren, Paul	University of Manitoba		Genetics of immune regulation and susceptibility to infection
Mergia, Ayalew	University of Florida		Genetics and Epigenetics of HIV, Foamy virus
Metpally, Raghu	Geisinger Health Systems	LinkedIn	Genetics and Epigenetics of Opioid and other substance use disorders
Mews, Philipp	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Web site	Epigenetic mechanisms of addiction and learning/memory
Miles, Michael	Virginia Commonwealth University		Genetic regulation of brain regional gene expression networks in ethanol and nicotine behaviors, genetics of ethanol-induced analgesia
Miranda, Manuel	University of Texas at El Paso		Cell Biology of Basal ganglia anatomy and transporters
Mitchell, Suzanne	Oregon Health & Science University	Web site	Genetics associated with impulsive decision-making (delay discounting, risk-taking), inhibition, effort-related decision-making; overlap with genes linked to SUDs.
Mngqibisa, Rosie	Enhancing Care Foundation	Web site	HIV and its comorbidities, AIDS, TB, behavioural research,
Mohan, Mahesh	Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University		Epigenetics of HIV/SIV induced chronic inflammation and Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction. Investigating the effect of cannabinoids and cocaine on HIV induced GI and neuroinflammation and lymphoid fibrosis using the SIV infected rhesus macaque model of AIDS
Morris, Kevin	The City of Hope
Moszczynska, Anna	Wayne State University		Methamphetamine addiction and neurotoxicity, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms
Mulligan, Megan	University of Tennessee Health Science Center	Web site	Genetics of drug response and substance use disorders
Mummidi, Srinivas	University of Texas Rio Grande Valley		Genetics and Epigenetics of HIV and Complex Diseases, Functional Genomics
Murdoch, David	Duke Univ Medical Center	Web site	Drugs of abuse in HIV infection, transcriptomics of immunity and immunomodulation
Namiranian, Khodadad	Kaiser Permanente		Population-based study for opioid use
Nechaev, Sergei	University of North Dakota School of Medicine	Web site	Transcription regulation and epigenetic mechanisms in breast cancer. Small RNA profiling. Transcriptomics
Nestler, Eric	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Web site	Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of stimulant and opioid addiction
Norden-Krichmar, Trina	University of California, Irvine	Web site	Bioinformatics; genetic factors; gene expression analysis; methylation; computational drug discovery; addiction; alcohol-induced liver disease
Odegaard, Katherine	University of Nebraska Medical Center		Drugs of abuse, HIV, extracellular vesicles
Otis, Jeff	Georgia State University		Alcoholic myopathy, HIV myopathy, skeletal muscle regeneration
Pagliusi, Marco	University of Maryland Baltimore		Cell subtype transcriptional, stress effects on behavior, pain
Palmer, Rohan	Emory University	Web site	Behavioral and genetic studies of addiction and related behaviors/traits + Integrative and predicitive genetic models of complex traits/diseases.
Palmer, Abraham	University of California San Diego	Web site	Behavioral genetics studies in mice, rats and humans. Examining both traits explicitly related to drug use, and also traits like impulsivity that are known risk factors (endophenotypes) for drug abuse
Palumbo, Sarah	Florida Atlantic University		Genetics and epidemiology of Opioid Use Disorder
Pan, Ying-Xian	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Canter		Mechanisms and functions of mu opioid receptor splice variants in opioid pharmacology
Peltz, Gary	Stanford University Medical School	Web site
Pendergrass, Sarah	Geisinger Research		Pharmacogenomics, Genetic Epidemiology, Bioinformatics
Pendyala, Gurudutt	University of Nebraska Medical Center		Neuroinflammation associated with long-term use of psychostimulant drugs (methamphetamine, nicotine) at the synapse; Prenatal drug exposure and synaptic development; Application of novel anti-inflammatory drugs; sex differences, high throughput omics approaches, systems biology
Pereira, Mariana	University of Massachusetts Amherst		Parenting and drug abuse
Periyasamy, Palsamy	University of Nebraska Medical Center	Web site	Drugs of abuse, HIV, autophagy, endoplasmic reticulum stress, epigenetics, microRNAs
Peter, Inga	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Web site	Genetic Epidemiology, Pharmacogenomics, Microbiome, HIV
Pfenning, Andreas	Carnegie Mellon University	Web site	Machine Learning, Cell type-specific genomics, Massively Parallel Reporter Assays, GWAS Analysis
Pogun, Sakire	Ege University, Izmir/Turkey		Nicotine preferring and not-preferring rat lines
Polimanti, Renato	Yale University School of Medicine	Web site	Human Genetics, Complex Traits, Biological Psychiatry, Computational Biology
Pozhidayeva, Dar’ya	Oregon Health & Science University		Drug abuse, RNA Seq, Genetics, Bioinformatics
Radcliffe, Richard	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus		Genetic basis of drug addiction and alcoholism
Reiner, Benjamin	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine		Genetic basis of addiction and psychiatric disease, role of L1 retrotransposons in addiction and psychiatric disease
Rice, John	Washington University		Statistical genetics
Richards, Tamara	Oregon Health & Science University	Web site	Genetic dissection of traits associated with risk for alcohol and drug use disorders
Rodriguez, Myosotys	Florida International University		HIV, autophagy, opiates, nanomedicine, epigenetics
Rogers, Jim	University of Nebraska - Omaha		Computational/mathematical modeling and analysis of large-scale biochemical networks
Rosenblum, Daniel M.	Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark NJ		Biostatistician; long-term multidisciplinary epidemiologic studies of demographically diverse substance use disorder cohorts; alcohol; opioids; tobacco
Saba, Laura	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	Web site	Systems genetics, transcriptomics, multi-omics analysis, rodent genetic panels
Sabunciyan, Sarven	Johns Hopkins University		The role of the transcriptome in psychiatric disorders with an emphasis on non-canonical RNAs such as expressed repetitive element sequences and extracellular mRNAs.
Sanchez, Mar	Emory University (& Yerkes National Primate Research Ctr)		Early life stress as a risk factor for substance use disorders in nonhuman primates, during adolescence and young adulthood.
Sanchez-Roige, Sandra	University of California San Diego		Genetics of substance use disorders and related-phenotypes (including impulsivity) in humans, and functional validation using animal models.
Sanghera, Dharambir	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	Web site	Genome-metabolome studies of opioid efficacy and dependence in humans and animals
Sartor, Gregory	University of Connecticut	Web site	Drugs of abuse, epigenetics, cell type-specific analysis, behavioral pharmacology
Saul, Michael	The Jackson Laboratory	Web site	Functional genomics; psychostimulant addiction; biobehavioral risk factors; genetically diverse mice
Schnall, Rebecca	Columbia University		Behavioral Health Interventions, mHealth technology
Shtutman, Michael	University of South Carolina		HIV/AIDS and Drugs of Abuse, Neuro AIDS, Neuroinflammation, Data mining, Text Mining, Functional genomics
Shu, Chang	Yale School of Medicine		Epigenetics of drug use, statistical genetics, machine learning
Slavotinek, Anne	University of California, San Francisco		Zebrafish models of eye defects
Smith, Desmond	University of California, Los Angeles		Mammalian complex trait genetics
Smith, Karen	University of Louisiana at Lafayette	Web site	Brain development and behavior. Main areas include Fgfr signaling in brain development and function, astrocyte biology, and endogenous opioid signaling in self injurious behaviors
Smith, Susan	UNC Nutrition Research Institute		Genetics of alcohol preference, metabolism; prenatal alcohol exposure; precision nutrition
Smith, Ryan	University of Iowa	Web site	Identifying novel anti-addiction drug targets and biomarkers using genomics, genetics, and epigenetics; developing the serotonin 2A receptor as an anti-stimulant drug target
Solesio, Torregrosa	Maria de la Encarnacion
Stitzel, Jerry	University of Colorado Boulder	Web site	Molecular and behavioral genetics of nicotine sensitivity in mice
Su, Jinni	Virginia Commonwealth University	Web site	Gene-environment interaction; alcohol and substance use in culturally diverse populations
Sump, Bethany	Northwestern University	Web site	Organization of the genome and impacts of organization on expression levels
Tabakoff, Boris	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus		Transcriptome, networks/systems, Hybrid Rat Diversity Panel, alcohol use disorders
Talal, Andrew	University at Buffalo, SUNY	Web site	Innovative approaches to engage substance users in research and treatment for liver disease
Tarantino, Lisa	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Web site	Mouse forward genetics, addiction, cocaine, psychostimulants, stress, complex trait analysis
Thangavel, Samikkannu	Texas A&M University Health Science Center		HIV/AIDS and Drugs of Abuse, Neuro AIDS and Epigenetic Modification
Tischfield, Jay	Rutgers New Brunswick		Opioid receptors, alcohol abuse, Tourette Disorder
Trampush, Joey	University of Southern California (USC)	Web site	Cognitive genomics; ADHD; GWAS; schizophrenia; substance abuse in psychopathology; neurodevelopment
Troiani, Vanessa	Geisinger		Motivated behavior, neurocognitive phenotypes of addiction, genetics, neuroimaging
Trujillo, Cleber	University of California San Diego		Stem cells, neurodevelopment, disease modeling, drug of abuse and neurotransmission
Turner, Jill	University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy	Web site	Drugs of abuse, affective disorders, cognitive impairment, cell-specfic transcriptomes
Tyagi, Mudit	Thomas Jefferson University	Web site	Drugs of abuse, Neuro-HIV, Molecular and Epigenetic mechanisms regulating HIV l transcription and latency, besides impact of drugs of abuse on HIV life cycle.
Tyndale, Rachel	University of Toronto and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health		Drugs of abuse, smoking, genetics, pharmacogenomcs, drug metabolism
Vallender, Eric	University of Mississippi Medical Center	Web site	Comparative genomics, nonhuman primate genetic models, evolutionary genetics, gene expression, functional genomics
Vassileva, Jasmin	Virginia Commonwealth University	Web site	Neurocognitive and computational phenotypes of addictions; impulsivity in opioid and stimulant use disorders; prevention neuroscience
Verhulst, Brad	Michigan State University		Structural Equation Modeling GWAS, phenotyping for drug abuse
Viola, Thiago	Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)		Cocaine, Trauma, Epigenetics, Translational, Women, Early Life Stress, HIV, Childhood Maltreatment, Immunology
Vrieze, Scott	University of Minnesota	Web site	Genetic association in humans and transgenic mice, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana. Quasi-experimental designs to test environmental effects on substance use/dependence development
Wager, Tor	University of Colorado, Boulder; Dartmouth College
Walss-Bass, Consuelo	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Web site	Molecular mechanisms of psychiatric and addiction disorders utilizing postmortem brain and iPS cells
Wang, Qun	Iowa State University	Web site	Tissue engineering based on stem cells, biomaterials mediated stem cells reprogramming, and cell-mediated drug delivery
Wang, Li-San	University of Pennsylvania	Web site	Genetics and genomics of Alzheimer's disease; bioinformatics for large genomic data
Weathington, Nathaniel	University of Pittsburgh	Web site	The impact and mechanism of drug action on immune cell metabolism with attention to cell biology and epigenetics as well as patient outcomes and genetic predisposition
Weinstock, George	The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine		Genomics, genetics, microbiology, microbiome, bioinformatics, applications to human disease, mouse models
Weiss, Stanley H.	Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark NJ		Long-term multidisciplinary epidemiologic studies of demographically diverse substance use disorder cohorts with linked repository and >30 years follow-up; HIV, AIDS, HCV, Cancer, Asthma, opioids, tobacco, ENDS, cocaine, HTLV-II, genetics, social determinants of disease, healthcare policy, epidemiology, alcohol
Williams, Brenna	Columbia University Medical Center, Molecular Therapeutics		Genetics, molecular and cellular biology of psychostimulant action
Williams, Robert W.	University of Tennessee Health Science Center	Web site	Genetics of addiction in rodent models, web services for genetics and genomic, rat and mouse whole genome sequencing and brain transcriptome analysis
Williams-Nguyen, Jessica	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center		Human gut microbiome, liver disease, people living HIV, Hispanic/Latino health
Wilson, Katherine	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Web site
Wimmer, Mathieu	Temple University	Web site	Delineating the epigenetic mechanisms underlying addiction susceptibility using multi-generational rodent models
Wolf, Fred	UC Merced	Web site	Alcohol brain plasticity, motivated behavior, genes and circuits
Wolstenholme, Jennifer	Virginia Commonwealth University	Web site	adolescence, alcohol, stress, epigenetics, genomics
Won, Hyejung	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Web site	Hi-C, psychiatric genetics, gene regulatory networks in the human brain
Woo, Christina	Harvard University	Web site	Binding site hotspot mapping of small molecules in the proteome (opioids, glycans)
Wood, Marcelo	University of California, Irvine	Web site	Epigenetic mechanisms underlying memory, addiction, and age-related cognitive function
Xie, Han	Labome	Web site	Validated Antibody Database. We compile a database of validated antibodies through manual curation of antibody applications from over 60,000 formal publications, with a focus on monoclonal antibodies and knockout validation.
Xie, Lei	The City University of New York	Web site	Development of new methods in machine learning, biophysics, and systems biology and their applications to precision medicine, drug discovery, and causal genotype-phenotype association in neurological disorders.
Xu, Ke	Yale University		Epigenetic effects of drug abuse in HIV-positive individuals, identify genetic and epigenetic features to predict medical outcomes in the context of drug abuse
Yadid, Gal	Bar Ilan University	Web site	Integrated program for personalized medicine for addiction, PTSD and depression using epigenetic, microbiome psychologic parameters
Yadid, Ananth	Purdue University, Computer Science	Web site	Models and methods for analyses of transcriptional and epigenetic controls.
Yang, Shasha	Drexel College of Medicine	Web site	How long range-inputs regulate the maduration of PFC interneurons during development
Ye, Fengchun	Case Western Reserve University	Web site	Mechanisms of HIV latency and reactivation in microglia and HIV-associated neuron degeneration
Yilmazer-Hanke, Deniz	Ulm University, Germany	Web site	Behavioral genetics, candidate genes for posttraumatic stress disorder (GWAS), noradrenergic system
Yu, Xu	Massachusetts General Hospital		Characterize the chromosomal position and chromatin structure of intact proviruses in HIV-1-infected drug users.
Yuanyi, Feng	Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences	Web site	Mechanisms of genome stability and histone modification in cerebral cortex development. We use mouse models to study alterations of cerebral cortical dopamine synthesis and dopamine receptors resulted from impaired chromatin remodeling in cortical neurogenesis.
Zhang, Jinfeng	Florida State University		Bioinformatics, computational biology, data mining, machine learning, biological networks, text mining, protein structure analysis, protein interactions, epigenetics.
Zhang, Wei	Northwestern University	Web site	Bioinformatics, epigenetics, biomarker, liquid biopsy
Zhang, Mike	Virginia Tech		Vaccine development against psychoactive compounds
Zhang, Bo	Washington University in St. Louis	Web site	Bioinformatics, epigenetics.
Zhang, Xinyu	Yale University		Bioinformatics, epigenetics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, biomarker, translational bioinformatics
Zhang, Li	University of Texas at Dallas	Web site	Molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, heme biology, omics,
Zheng, Deyou	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Web site	Bioinformatics, functional genomics, systems genomics, transcriptome
Zhong, Shuping	University of Southern California		Deregulation of Non-coding RNA, Pol III gene transcription of cancer, histone modification regulation of Brf1 and Pol III genes, alcohol and cancers
Zhu, Jian	Ohio State University	Web site	Epigenetic regulation of HIV persistence and inflammation compounded by drug abuse
Zhu, Chunjiang	University of Connecticut	Web site	Machine/Deep Learning and Statistical Modeling on Heterogeneous Data to Better Understand Mental Disorders and Substance Use Disorders
Zhuang, Xiaoxi	The University of Chicago	Web site	Synaptic mechanisms supporting reinforcement learning and economic decision making. Genetic models of disease. Our main approaches include mouse genetics, fly genetics, animal learning paradigms, electrophysiology, biochemistry and RNA-seq.
Peng, Xinxia	NC State University	Web site	Bioinformatics, genomics, infectious diseases, immunology, microbiome