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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol drinking behavior / Ting-Kai Li.

Throughout his career, Dr. Li has been at the center of advances that have transformed both the way alcoholism is understood and the means of investigating alcohol's effects on the body and the brain. A major focus of Dr. Li's research has been to characterize the structure and dynamics of the multiple genetic variants of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), the enzyme that catalyzes the first step in the metabolism of ethanol. Dr. Li was honored with a MERIT award for research on the molecular basis of differences among individuals in the physiology of these enzymes. Dr. Li also pioneered the development of animal models in which marked differences in the level of voluntary alcohol consumption could be observed, paralleling the same inborn variation seen in human behavior. The development of these animal lines helped cement the once radical notion that alcohol consumption behavior was genetically influenced. NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series.

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Monday, November 03, 2003
Ting-Kai Li, M.D., NIAAA Director
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