The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), awarded a $257,522 Project Grant (R25DA061764) to the University of Mississippi to develop a multimodal and interdisciplinary data science training program. The program aims to enhance a diverse workforce for addiction research by providing specialized training in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods. Key program components include webinars, summer...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports the development of an undergraduate research program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The $524,272 award aims to promote the advancement of students from underrepresented groups in the field of addiction research through the "Training in Research Undergraduate Experience through the Rutgers Addiction Research...
The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) was awarded a $267,696 Project Grant by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to create the PHIT-AR (Addiction Research) track within its existing Public Health Informatics and Technology (PHIT) program. The goal is to recruit and train a diverse group of undergraduate students in data science skills to prepare them for doctoral programs in drug addiction research. The 5-year...
This $1,078,339 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) supports the "PREPARING INDIGENOUS SCIENTISTS TO LEAD INNOVATIVE SUBSTANCE USE RESEARCH: THE NATIVE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH EXCHANGE SCHOLARS PROGRAM". The grant aims to foster the development of early career Indigenous substance use and disorder researchers, particularly those focused on the impacts and developmental course of problematic...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $306,528 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Addinex Technologies, Inc. The grant will fund the development of a medication adherence and monitoring system to support decentralized clinical trials for substance use disorder (SUD). The project aims to adapt Addinex's existing medication management system to provide researchers running SUD clinical trials with a tool for at-home dispensing that...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), with the official CFDA program title "Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs", is funding the development of an educational intervention to train a diverse workforce in addiction data science. The $136,320 award will support the creation of an immersive, tailored addiction data science skills course that provides hands-on training in areas such as FAIR data principles, computational analytics, and natural...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) to the Scripps Research Institute provides $288,107 in funding from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030. The grant supports a predoctoral training program to develop a new generation of leaders in addiction research, equipped with technical skills and expertise in team science to translate research targets into potential treatments. The program combines a core of expert mentors...
The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College was awarded a $363,310 Project Grant under the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to support the "Healthy Brain and Child Development Study's Scientific Training in Addiction Research Techniques Program (HBCD-START)." The goal of this 5-year program is to create a strong pipeline of substance misuse clinical researchers trained in the analysis and dissemination of...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $264,000 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Innovation Research And Training, Inc. (IRT), a woman-owned small business research organization based in Durham, North Carolina. The purpose of this 3-year project, beginning September 2024, is to evaluate the "Substance of Change: Building Assets in Mentees Affected by Substance Misuse" (SOC), an interactive, multimedia, web-based,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) is intended to develop and offer an "Interdisciplinary Summer Institute on the Analysis of Complex, Large-Scale Longitudinal Data". The $623,300 award, with a performance period from September 15, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will be used to train 50 interdisciplinary participants annually, including students, postdocs, and faculty, on the innovative...