Funding

Current Grant Awards

05/01/2025 – 04/30/2026 PI: Vatsalya Vatsalya

  • Funding Agency: Altimmune Corporation
  • Title: ALT-801-241 ALD Study
  • Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Capacity effort: 2%.

10/01/2024 – 09/30/2031 PIs: Craig McClain, Ashwani Singal

  • Funding Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
  • Title: Integrated therapies for alcohol use and ALD (ITAALD) Network – UofL Clinical Center
  • Role: Site Clinical Director.
  • Capacity effort: 5%.

08/15/2024 – 08/14/2026 CREATE. PI-Mentee: Aishwarya Thakurdesai. Mentor: Vatsalya Vatsalya

  • Funding Agency: Department of Medicine, University of Louisville
  • Title: Pilot open-label evaluation of varenicline tartrate as dual-target therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder and comorbid Alcohol-associated Liver Disease
  • Role: Primary Mentor.
  • Capacity effort: 2%. Competitive/Awarded

09/01/2024 – 04/30/2025 INBRE Supplement. Vatsalya Vatsalya (M-PI with Bert Watson).

  • Funding Agency: NIH (INBRE).
  • Title: Novel personalized medicine treatment/biomarkers for AUD/ALD.
  • Role: M-PI.
  • Capacity effort: 3%. Competitive/Awarded.

04/01/2024 – 03/31/2026 Medicaid. PI: Maiying Kong

  • Funding Agency: Medicaid.
  • Title: Treatment development of AUD.
  • Role: Clinical Investigator (Lead - AUD section).
  • Capacity effort: 3%. Competitive/Awarded.

10/01/2022-09/30/2025 Excellence Research Recruitment Program. PI: Vatsalya Vatsalya

  • Funding Agency: Jewish Heritage Foundation
  • Title: Establishment of research program
  • Role: Principal Investigator (PI).
  • Capacity effort: 2%. Competitive/Awarded.

2021/05/01 – 2027/04/30 K23 AA029198. PI: Vatsalya Vatsalya

  • Funding Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
  • Title: Lactobacillus Rhamnosus: A Novel Probiotic Therapy for Treating Alcohol Use Disorder
  • Capacity effort: 75%. Competitive/Awarded.

Current Contract Project

2017/04/01 – 2027/03/31 NCIG-003: PD: Raye Litten

  • Contract Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
  • Title: Varenicline for Alcohol Dependence (Intra-and Extramural). NCIG-003/ Umbrella Grant: NCT01146613
  • Project: Repurposing Assessment of Varenicline in Lowering Alcohol Consumption
  • Role: Project Principal Investigator (PI)
  • Capacity effort: 2%. Non-competitive/Awarded

2024/11/01 – 2029/10/01 PDs: Melanie Schwandt and Vatsalya Vatsalya

  • Contract Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
  • Title: Biomarkers of CSF Characterize the Clinical Domains of Alcohol Use Disorder via the Mechanism of Gut-Brain Axis
  • Role: Site Principal Investigator (PI)
  • Capacity effort: 2%. Non-competitive/Awarded