About the Wheeler Center
Wheeler Center
Mission
The Wheeler Center
for the Neurobiology of Addiction is a collaborative research program
seeking biological answers to the human tragedy of drug addiction. Our
scientists investigate how drugs of abuse change brain function and how
these changes lead to addiction. Our goal is to develop a foundation of
knowledge resulting in more effective treatment for addiction.
About the
Wheeler Center
The Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction has brought together
scientists in genetics and in cell, molecular and systems neuroscience
to explore and identify nervous system changes that lead to addiction.
The Center's members have made seminal contributions to our understanding
of drug actions on the nerve cells that mediate reward and on the mechanisms
of learning and memory -- phenomena that play key roles in the addictive
process. The goal of the center is two fold. First, to bring to the study
of addiction a broad scope of basic scientific inquiry and fresh insights
that require collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. Second, to
attract the brightest students and young investigators to the field of
addiction research.
By so doing, Center
researchers will accelerate the discovery process and advance knowledge
through exploiting new technologies, whenever and wherever they emerge.
For this reason, Wheeler Center funding provides grants to associated
faculty with novel ideas or techniques. We provide seed money to nascent
approaches with the hope of nurturing creativity. Given the aversion to
risk taking among traditional funding sources and their emphasis on support
for established projects and investigators, we believe that this approach
can be catalytic. Continued >>
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