Luis M. Tuesta, researcher in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UM’s Miller School of Medicine, has received the Avenir Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. His research aims to prevent opioid abuse relapse.

Tuesta and the Miller School will receive $2.3 million over the next five years. This will allow Tuesta’s lab to further their treatment research with a novel approach to understanding opioid addiction. “Ultimately, we want to manipulate the root of the craving with a drug to change the behavioral course of addiction,” Tuesta said.

• Luis Tuesta