Research Interests
- tobacco use among vulnerable populations (e.g. adolescents, people living with HIV);
- cognitive and affective neuroscience of substance use disorders;
- mobile health applications to treat tobacco use and other substance use disorders;
- experimental clinical research to inform FDA regulation of tobacco products;
- role of environments in the initiation, progression and cessation of tobacco use.
Selected Grants
Neural correlates and behavioral impact of withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia among people who smoke with and without chronic pain
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030NCCU Duke - Substance Use Research & Education (ND-SURE)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Central University · 2024 - 2029Targeting Reinforcement Mechanisms for Smoking Cessation Using Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes in Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2027Neurobehavioral mechanisms linking childhood adversity to increased risk for smoking
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Drug Abuse · 2022 - 2027Beta-Adrenergic Modulation of Drug Cue Reactivity: Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center · 2022 - 2026Predicting response to a U.S. nicotine reduction standard in medical and psychiatric priority populations
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Michigan · 2024 - 2025Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in AIDS
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2025Impact of new standards for tobacco products among dual e-cigarette/combusted cigarette users
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024Using Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes as a Strategy to Disrupt the Pain-Smoking Reinforcement Cycle
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2024Hybrid Trial of a Tailored Smoking Cessation Digital Therapeutic for Persons Living with HIV
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2024Impact of Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes in a Complex Marketplace
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Minnesota · 2018 - 2024Clarifying the role of tobacco retail outlets on maternal smoking during pregnancy and child secondhand smoke exposure
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Virginia Commonwealth University · 2019 - 2023Early-phase Studies of a Tailored Evidence-Based Smoking Cessation mHealth App for Persons Living with HIV
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2022Paternal Transgenerational Epigenetic Legacy from Use of Cannabis
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2017 - 2022A High-Performance 3T MRI for Brain Imaging
EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2022Targeting reward dysfunction as a mechanism to improve smoking cessation
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2022Project 2: Evaluating New Nicotine Standards for Cigarettes - Supplement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Minnesota · 2017 - 2022Deep learning-based image analysis for assessing real-time smoking risk
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2021Mobile health interventions for varenicline adherence among HIV-positive smokers
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2021Impact of new product standards for JUUL among dual JUUL/combusted cigarette users
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Center for the Assessment of the Public Health Impact of Tobacco Regulations · 2019 - 2021Nicotine Withdrawal and Reward Processing: Connecting Neurobiology to Real-World Behavior
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2021Innovative Smartphone Application for Quitting Smoking among Seriously Mentally Ill
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2020Neural Correlates of Social Reward in Smoking and Depression
ResearchMentor · Awarded by Brain and Behavior Research Foundation · 2017 - 2020Reactions to Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes in Young Adult Low-Frequency Smokers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2020Bringing PrEP to Campus: Examining Strategies for PrEP Delivery to Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2020Environment Cue-Reactivity: Brain, Behavior and Clinical Outcomes in Tobacco Use
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2020Prototype Development of CANARIUS - a Flexible, Dynamic, Scaleable, and Low-cost Platform for Surveiling Population Health
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2019 - 2020Effects of Nicotine Reduction on Smoking Behavior in ADHD Smokers
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2019Neurobehavioral substrates of propranolol's effects on drug cue reactivity
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2019mSMART: Mobile App based Personalized Solutions and Tools for Medication Adherence of Rx Pills
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Intelligent Automation Inc. · 2014 - 2019Behavioral and genetic mechanisms of smoking risk in individuals with ADHD
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2018Smoking Abstinence in ADHD and non-ADHD Smokers: Assessing the Role of Emotion Dysregulation
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2018Investigating the Effects of E-Cigarette Television Ads on Smokers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research Triangle Institute International · 2016 - 2018Strengthening Instrumental Extinction to Prevent Smoking Relapse
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2018Impact of Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes in a Complex Marketplace
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Minnesota · 2017 - 2017Acute and chronic nicotine modulation of reinforcement learning
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2017NeuroAIDS research with disadvantaged drug users
FellowshipCo-Sponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2017A Compute Cluster for Brain Imaging and Analysis
EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2017Project 2: Evaluating New Nicotine Standards for Cigarettes - Supplement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Minnesota · 2014 - 2017Neurocognitive Impact of Marijuana Use in Patients with HIV/AIDS
FellowshipCo-Sponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2015Neurobehavioral and fMRI Research in HIV Infection and Cocaine Dependence
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2015Development of a Smartphone-Based Virtual Sensor for Detecting Smoking Behavior
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2015Environments as Smoking Cues: Imaging Brain Substrates, Developing New Treatments
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2014Project 1: Evaluating New Nicotine Standards in Cigarettes - Supplement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pittsburgh · 2013 - 2014Elucidating links between ADHD symptoms and tobacco/alcohol use trajectories
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2014Neuropharmacology of Response Inhibition in Comorbid ADHD and Nicotine Dependence
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2014Neural Substrates of Extinction-Based Treatment for Nicotine Dependence
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2014Optimal Smoking Cessation Treatment in PTSD
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2014Novel Ondansetron Formulation for Combination Treatment of Psychostimulant Abuse
Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2013Neurobiology of Nicotine and Non-nicotine Components of Tobacco Addiction
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2013Neuroimaging of Nicotine Dependence, Depression and Emotion Regulation
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2013Genetic basis of smoking abstinence, smoking reinforcement, and inhibitory control
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2012Supplemental Nicotine Administration for Smoking Cessation in PTSD
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2012Smoking reinforcement in adults with and without ADHD
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2012Smoking & Anxiety In Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1998 - 2012Neuropharmacology of Emotion-Cognition Interaction in Nicotine Dependence
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2011Precision Targeting of fMRI-Guided TMS Using a Robotic Arm System
EquipmentInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2011Mechanisms of Nicotine Dependence in ADHD Adults
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2009Neuroimaging Attentional Impairment During Abstinence
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2009The Effect of Smoking on Startle & PPI in PTSD
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2009Summer Research with NIDA for Underrepresented Minorities
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2008Drug Cue Reactivity in Smokers: An fMRI Investigation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2004External Relationships
- University of Vermont
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