Liu, O’Quigley receive Research Challenge Grant funding
Assistant Professor Lei Liu, PhD, and Professor John M. O’Quigley, MSc, PhD, have been awarded a two-year Research Challenge Grant 1 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism along with Professor Bankole Johnson, DSc, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. Together, the three faculty will apply several innovative models to analyze person-centered data for alcoholism treatment research. They will also introduce new adaptive designs to identify optimal dose in a cost-effective way. Senior Biostatistician Xin-Qun Wang will serve as Data Manager for the project, Analytic Methods of Person-Centered Data and Adaptive Designs for Alcohol Treatment Research.
“Their work is aimed at speeding the process of comparing effectiveness of different treatments in alcohol dependence studies,” commented PHS Chair William A. Knaus, MD, “a very timely effort given the increased national attention on comparative effectiveness studies.”