UVM Awarded $1 Million Grant for Nicotine Research

If you start smoking as a teen, it is much harder to quit. University of Vermont Neurobiologist Dr. Rae Nishi wants to find out why. Thanks to a $1 million Challenge Grant, Nishi and her team will be able to further study the way adolescent brains react to nicotine. Dr. Nishi used some of the funds from this grant to purchase one of our Neurolucida with AutoNeuron workstations to quantitatively analyze neurons.

The grant is one of 200 National Institute of Health grants allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help stimulate the American economy. These grants target projects involving health and science research. The grant also helped fund three to four full-time research positions.

Read the entire article, Stimulus Pumps Up UVM Research, at the Burlington Free Press site to find out more about NIH Challenge Grants and Dr. Nishi’s research.



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UVM senior Kelly Carstens, MBF Bioscience’s Geoff Greene, and UVM Neurobiologist Dr. Rae Nishi
Photo by Glenn Russell – Courtesy of Burlington Free Press

 

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