The National Cancer Institute is highlighting researchers who have been awarded at least one Behavioral Research Program-funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. Sterling M. McPherson, PhD, interim vice dean for Research at the WSU College of Medicine, is featured in the Tobacco Control Research Branch section.
McPherson’s profile highlights his research interests and motivations as well as his ongoing work in tobacco control research.
“I came into the area of tobacco control by way of observing that a high percentage of our participants in clinical trials of alcohol, methamphetamine, and opioid use smoke,” McPherson says in his profile. “While this is not a new observation per se, focusing on the development of novel therapeutics focused on smoking and addiction to another substance is a major gap in the literature.”