India, May 2 -- University of Birmingham researchers have been selected to receive funding as part of a new $50M Wellcome Leap programme, Untangling Addiction, which aims to develop new ways to address addiction, quantify addiction risk, and develop new treatments to aid recovery.

Dr Ali Mazaheri from Centre for Human Brain Health, and School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract to investigate how metabolic, neurobiological and cognitive profiles can be combined to screen patients most susceptible to become addicted to opiate-based prescription painkillers after major surgery

He will lead a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Psychology , the Institute for Inflamma...