The Biomedical Alcohol Research Training Program at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans is a predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowship program (MD, PhD or equivalent). It is funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as part of the the National Research Service Award program.

The Biomedical Alcohol Research Training Program was developed to prepare graduate students seeking a PhD degree and postdoctoral fellows interested in careers as independent scientists. We have 15 faculty with extensive experience in mentoring aspiring scientists which have academic appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology, Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Immunology & Parasitology, in the School of Medicine at the at the LSU Health Sciences Center. In addition, our faculty includes mentoring scientists at the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, LA and LSU in Baton Rouge, LA and other scientists that enrich our research training environment at all 3 campuses. Alcohol research opportunities that trainees are pursuing include but are not limited to the following:

1. Innate and acquired immune system in the context of infection
2. HIV/AIDS (prevention, transmission, pathogenesis, progression, therapy)
3. Neuroendocrine mechanisms in the regulation of tissue injury
4. Stem cell biology in infection and tissue repair
5. Organization of the proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum, particularly the cytochrome P450 system, and their effects on oxidative damage
6. Learning/memory acquisition
7. Epidemiology of STD  including HIV and violence