The Administrative Core of the Indiana Alcohol Research Center provides leadership by coordinating and optimizing the synergy of the interacting components and cores. The Administrative Core also provides financial oversight and administrative support for all center work and provides leadership in identifying, recruiting, and developing new center investigators. It also fosters collaborative research between the center and other investigators, as well as centers domestically and abroad.
Steering Committee
Martin Plawecki, Center Investigator
Marion Logrip, Center Investigator
Nicholas Grahame, Center Core Faculty
Melissa Cyders, Center Core Faculty
Karmen Yoder, Center Core Faculty
Tamika Zapolski, Center Core Faculty
Steve Boehm, Center Investigator
Internal Scientific Advisors
Howard Edenberg, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
Tatiana Foroud, Executive Associate Dean for Research Affairs, Indiana University School of Medicine, Chair of the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs for Clinical Research at Indiana University Health
Sean O’Connor, Professor of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine
Bryan Yamamoto, Robert B. Forney Professor Emeritus of Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine
External Program Advisory Board
Andrea King, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago
Christian Hendershot, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Director of the Clinical and Translational Addiction Research Program
(Lawrence) Judson Chandler, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina
Gregg E. Homanics, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Bruce Lamb, Director, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Roberts Family Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University
Olaf Sporns, Distinguished Professor, Provost Professor, Robert H. Shaffer Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington