Investigation of novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of drug addiction

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1037080

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Drug abuse remains one of the world’s leading health care problems and the current drugs available to treat drug addiction are largely ineffective. This project aims to investigate the potential of a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of drug addiction with has the capacity for substantially reduced off-target effects.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $294,892.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Central Nervous System

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

addiction | addiction treatment | adenosine receptors | alcohol abuse | alcoholism | drug addiction | glutamate receptors | receptor dimerisation | relapse prevention | therapeutics

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