NIAAA focuses on developing medicines

NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism took steps this summer to underscore its support for translational research with new plans for a division dedicated to developing drugs for alcohol use disorder.

According to NIAAA director George Koob, the creation of a new Division of Medications Development is intended to signal the importance of developing drugs for alcohol use disorder at the NIAAA, which has also joined the trend of other NIH institutes to work with small biotechs through a new Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program...