Elisabet Jerlhag Holm is now a professor of pharmacology

Akademiliv congratulates Elisabet Jerlhag Holm on her professorship! Her research group is investigating mechanisms in the development of addiction, with a focus on hormones that regulate appetite. These hormones have traditionally been considered only important for how much we eat, but Elisabet Jerlhag Holm’s research shows that they also reduce alcohol intake and the rewards of other drugs, and also affect sexual behavior. The research is also about variations in the genes that encode appetite-regulating hormones and how they are linked to high alcohol intake, as well as how people with high alcohol intake self-administer alcohol intravenously. The aim of the research is to contribute to new drugs for the treatment of addiction. Elisabet Jerlhag Holm also conducts teaching on the treatment of various neuropsychiatric diseases.