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To support the free and open dissemination of research findings and information on alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. To encourage open access to peer-reviewed articles free for all to view.

For full versions of posted research articles readers are encouraged to email requests for "electronic reprints" (text file, PDF files, FAX copies) to the corresponding or lead author, who is highlighted in the posting.

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Biomarkers for Alcohol-Induced Disorders
Friday, June 27, 2008

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
5635 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20852
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Friday, June 27, 2008
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Alcoholism is a devastating disease affecting more than 18 million adults in the United States and costing society over $185 billion annually. Approximately 100,000 Americans die annually due to alcohol-related events. One in four children under the age of 18 is exposed to family alcohol problems and between 20 to 40 percent of hospital admissions are alcohol related. Due to the host of medical, social, economic and personal afflictions associated with problematic drinking, it is vital that effective strategies be developed to prevent, diagnose, and treat alcohol-induced disorders. Essential to these strategies is the development of effective diagnostic tests or biomarkers to detect high-risk drinking behavior and alcohol-induced tissue injury.

This meeting is intended for alcohol researchers interested in developing new biomarkers for alcohol consumption and alcohol-induced tissue injury, to provide a fresh perspective of the challenges to discovery and validation of biomarkers employing tools and technologies from the genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatic fields. NIAAA is committed to fostering the identification of diagnostic signatures or fingerprints that would predict in more reliable ways high-risk alcohol consumption, detecting relapse drinking, and providing early markers of tissue injury during fetal alcohol exposure as well as injury to tissues such as brain, liver, pancreas, heart, the immune system, and in conditions such as cancer in adult abusers.

Organizing Committee:

Jose Velazquez, Ph.D., Chair

Howard Moss, MD

Max Guo, Ph.D.

Lisa Neuhold, Ph.D.

Kathy Jung, Ph.D.

Raye Litten, Ph.D.

This meeting is sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, USA.

Registration is free and attendance limited only by space availability.

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