This $136,320 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will support the development and dissemination of an educational intervention focused on advancing data science skills for addiction research. The key products and services to be delivered include: An immersive, tailored "Addiction Data Science Skills" course that provides hands-on training in FAIR data principles, computational analysis...
This Project Grant award for $564,326 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to develop new statistical methods for combining data from multiple clinical trials on the treatment of opioid use disorder. The objectives are to: 1) create efficient estimators for average treatment effects, personalized treatment effects, and optimal individualized treatment rules using multi-study, multi-outcome data; 2) develop...
This $791,685 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will fund a longitudinal study on the neurobehavioral and psychosocial predictors of health risk behaviors in adolescence and young adulthood. The primary objectives of this 5-year grant are to: 1) assess the longitudinal and bidirectional associations between neural valuation/control systems and health risk behaviors from adolescence to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $800,617 to support the development and validation of neuromarkers - measurable, brain-based indicators of pathophysiology, risk, and resilience related to substance use disorders (SUDs). The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: 1) Using machine learning and fMRI data to create a cross-validated...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $315,533 was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The grant supports the ABCD-REPRONIM educational program, which delivers research training in responsible and reproducible analyses of data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. The program provides a 16-week online course followed by a 5-day in-person hackathon event at Florida...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to examine cognitive, behavioral, and brain-based markers of self-regulation as predictors of cannabis and alcohol co-use in adolescence. The $166,512 award to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York will fund a longitudinal study to investigate how impairments in executive function and high impulsivity prior to substance...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to optimize an online behavioral intervention to prevent and reduce substance use among high school seniors during a critical transition period. The $1,702,558 award will fund a multi-year research effort by Prevention Strategies, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company located in Greensboro, North Carolina. The project will utilize...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,080,885 and awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports the development of novel neural network models to study multiscale brain network dynamics and behavior. The key objectives are to create dynamic models that can capture nonlinearity, enable flexible inference (causal/real-time, non-causal, and accounting for missing data), and facilitate closed-loop control...
This $196,560 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports research by Dr. Katherine McCurry, a clinical psychologist, to investigate the association between childhood trauma, altered neural responses to reward and threat, and risk for substance use disorders (SUDs) in adolescents. The key objectives are to: 1) identify multivariate neurosignatures predictive of problematic...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to develop new technology-based materials to encourage drug checking, distribution of harm reduction supplies, and linkage to addiction treatment services. The $1,607,146 award to NDRI-USA Inc., a non-profit research organization, will fund the creation of multimedia content in English and Spanish to increase overdose prevention behaviors and...