Effects of alcohol use on the gut, inflammation, and organ injury: A summary of the 2025 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting

Madison M Tschann; J Mark Brown; Summer L Thompson; Anjali Kumari; Ashley Peer; Pranoti Mandrekar; Neil Romesh; Chueh-Lung Hwang; Samantha M Yeligar; Elizabeth J Kovacs; Mashkoor A Choudhry

doi:10.1016/j.alcohol.2025.11.005

Effects of alcohol use on the gut, inflammation, and organ injury: A summary of the 2025 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting

Alcohol. 2026 Feb:130:28-32. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2025.11.005. Epub 2025 Nov 20.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL, USA; Alcohol Research Program, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL, USA.
² Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA; Nebraska Food for Health Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Orthopedics, Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA, USA; Atlanta Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Decatur, GA, USA.
⁸ Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.
⁹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, And Atlanta Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Decatur, GA, USA.
¹⁰ Alcohol Research Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA; Division of GI, Trauma and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA; Veterans Health Administration, Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center (RMRVAMC), Aurora, CO, USA.
¹¹ Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL, USA; Alcohol Research Program, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL, USA. Electronic address: mchoudhry@luc.edu.

PMID: 41274585
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2025.11.005

Abstract

The 30th annual Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting was held on June 21st, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, Louisiana as a satellite symposium of the Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) and International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) joint meeting. The meeting was divided into two plenary sessions. The overall focus of this year's meeting was on the effects of alcohol on the gut microbial changes, inflammation, and organ injury.

Publication types

Conference Proceedings

MeSH terms

Alcohol Drinking* / adverse effects
Alcohol Drinking* / immunology
Alcoholism / immunology
Animals
Ethanol* / adverse effects
Gastrointestinal Microbiome* / drug effects
Humans
Inflammation* / chemically induced

Substances

Ethanol