Our Crowdfunding Groups
Thank you for supporting our research project. Donors like you ensure that projects like ours happen and without your support we would not be able to bring this project to fruition. Please continue to follow our project progress through our Twitter hashtag and keep an eye out for email updates as we move forward. Maybe what started here with your help will change the world for all individuals impacted by alcohol use disorder.
Sincerely,
The laboratory of Dr. Reg
We have surpassed our stretch goal of $6,000.00.
We are incredibly thankful to everyone that has donated to our crowdfunding campaign and honored to have received so much support from our family, friends, and colleagues. Thank you all so very much!
-The Laboratory of Dr. Regina Mangieri
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we were able to surpass our initial fundraising goal of $3,500.00! Due to this overwhelming support, we have decided to create a stretch goal of $6,000.00, which would allow us to publish the results of this research in an open access format.
What does "open access format" mean? It means that researchers pay a fee (usually several thousand dollars) to a scientific journal so that their research article is publicly available and anyone can read it for free (in contrast to a subscription format in which readers have to pay the journal to read the article).
Our lab is grateful for the support we have received thus far from our community for our project.
We are honored to have received so much support from all of our donors over the past 48 hours.
We still have a long way to go, but we are on track to meet our goal of $3,500.00!
Thus far we have raised a little over $1,600.00.
If you have already donated:
1) THANK YOU!
2) Consider becoming an ambassador and spread the word about our campaign. The more people that know about our project and needs, the more likely we are to meet our goal.
With gratitude,
The laboratory of Dr. Regina Mangieri
The average lifespan of a green tea producing plant is between 30 and 50 years. Not just the leaves are used though, the roots can be burned to heat the oven that is used to dry the leaves to make tea.
In 2017, out of all individuals in the United States struggling with alcohol use disorder only 6.5% received treatment.
We share 92% of our DNA with the mouse. That's a lot to have in common with these small but mighty scientific heroes!
Electrophysiology is a technique that allows us to examine the electrical-chemical activity of individual brain cells. How do we do this? We each have a "rig" or a workstation that holds all of our tools and controllers. Your donation will provide us with the resources we need to conduct electrophysiology experiments for one day.
In 2017 19.7 million people in the United States struggled with a substance abuse disorder. Out of those 19.7 million, 74% struggled with alcohol use disorder. That's over 14.5 million people.
Both male mice and female mice are highly motivated to construct nests to maintain body temperature and avoid to predators. Sober mice build great nests but mice experiencing a hangover do not. During nest building, each of our mice have 0.282 ounces worth of building material to construct their mouse-mansions with.
Providing food, water, and housing to each of our mice can get expensive. Your donation will provide room and board to 10 mice for the duration of our research project.
Out of the 14.5 million individuals that struggled with alcohol use disorders in 2017, only 900,000 individuals received treatment. Treatment options are limited. We need to develop better treatments that are more readily available so that a greater number of individuals both seek and receive treatment. Rally for Research donors will have the option of being acknowledged in the manuscript we intend to share our research findings in. Please, if you would like to be acknowledged, do not donate anonymously!
In 1893 something incredible was created: The College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas. The College of Pharmacy is where our laboratory resides and where we, the laboratory of Dr. Regina Mangieri, strive every day to make an impact on the lives of individuals with alcohol use disorder. Your donation will help us take a giant leap towards making this project happen. Dedicated to Science donors will have the option of being acknowledged in the manuscript we intend to share our research findings in. Please, if you would like to be acknowledged, do not donate anonymously!
