A chemical biologist at Oregon Health & Science University has become just the second researcher in the institution’s history to receive a prestigious Avenir Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, known as NIDA, of the National Institutes of Health.
James Frank, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical physiology and biochemistry in the OHSU School of Medicine and the Vollum Institute at OHSU, will use the award to develop new tools to improve understanding of an alternative suite of receptors in the brain believed to be involved in opioid addiction.