$11.85 Million Grant To Support New Center To Study Rural Drug Use

LINCOLN – The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has earned an $11.85 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a research center focused on understanding and addressing drug addiction in the rural Midwest.

The five-year grant from NIH’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE, will support Nebraska’s multidisciplinary Rural Drug Addiction Research Center. The COBRE program funds health-related research and fosters faculty development and research infrastructure.

RDAR will conduct cutting-edge research into understanding the extent and nature of rural addiction,...