Friday, April 18, 2025

Room 245

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

 

Dr. Craig McClain is a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology & Toxicology, Distinguished University Scholar, Associate Vice President for Translational Research, Associate Vice President for Health Affairs/Research at the University of Louisville.  He is also Director of the NIH-funded Alcohol Research Center and the NIH-funded Hepatobiology & Toxicology COBRE Center.  Dr. McClain was the first physician member of the NIH PRAC (Peer review advisory committee), served on the National External Advisory Council for NIAAA, and served on the NIH Council of Councils.  His research is focused on nutrition and alcohol-associated liver disease, environmental liver disease, and metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease.  His team was the first to describe dysregulated cytokines in alcohol associated liver disease.  The group was also the first to describe toxicant-associated liver disease.  Dr. McClain has published over 530 peer-reviewed publications and over 110 book chapters/reviews, etc.  He has had continuous federal funding as PI for research since 1977 and is currently funded by multiple grants from the NIH and VA.  Dr. McClain has mentored well over 130 graduate students, post-docs, medical students/residents/fellows, including over 35 junior faculty members on over 40 career development awards.