Dr. Nihal Salem received the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) Young Investigator Award (2022) at the 14th Congress of ESBRA (September 8th – 11th 2013) Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Salem is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mayfield lab at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research. Her current work focuses on utilizing single cell and spatial transcriptomics to identify molecular mechanisms mediating escalation of alcohol consumption and using drug repurposing to identify therapeutics that reverse this escalation.