Together with Professor Kenneth Kendler at Virginia Commonwealth University, the research group will, among other things, study over time how individual factors, as well as environmental factors, interacted in the emergence of the ongoing opioid epidemic and other drug abuse.
Jan Sundquist has previously had two five-year grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH for studies concerning genetic and environmental factors and their impact on substance abuse and psychiatric illnesses. The new five-year project is also funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse until 2026.
“I feel very honored about the new confidence we have now received from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This is a result of the fantastic teamwork that exists in the research group and our successful transatlantic collaboration,” says Jan Sundquist.
The research group, led by Professor Kristina Sundquist, has a total of four ongoing large grants from the NIH.