The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $257,522 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to the University of Mississippi to establish 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. The 5-year program features webinars, summer academies, symposiums, a...
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...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), awarded a $809,922 Project Grant to the University of Colorado-Denver to support the "PREPARING INDIGENOUS SCIENTISTS TO LEAD INNOVATIVE SUBSTANCE USE RESEARCH: THE NATIVE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH EXCHANGE SCHOLARS PROGRAM". This grant, effective from September 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, aims to foster the development of early career Indigenous substance use and disorder...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $267,696 Project Grant under CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs to the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), a minority-serving institution, for the project "Enhancing Opportunities for Addiction Research in the Merrimack Valley." The project aims to expand UML's existing Public Health Informatics and Technology (PHIT) program by creating a new PHIT-AR (Addiction Research) track. This will recruit diverse...
This $181,040 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to create an immersive training experience to study the genetic etiology of substance use disorders (SUDs). The award recipient, Yale University, will leverage the Million Veteran Program (MVP) biobank to: (1) model patterns of SUD co-occurrence and substance co-use, (2) utilize electronic health record data and toxicology results to provide...
This Project Grant award of $623,300.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) supports the development and delivery of an "Interdisciplinary Summer Institute on the Analysis of Complex, Large-Scale Longitudinal Data". The institute aims to train 50 interdisciplinary participants per year, including students, postdocs, and faculty, on the innovative and responsible use of publicly available, large, and complex longitudinal...
This Project Grant award of $134,311 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under CFDA Program 93.279 (Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) will fund the "Preparing the Next Generation of Addiction Researchers in Computational AI/ML Techniques" research education program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) over 5 years beginning September 2024. The program aims to train up to 40-50 predoctoral and postdoctoral addiction researchers in...
This Project Grant award of $207,910 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports a 3-year training program for a graduate student at the University of Michigan to research shared neurobiological mechanisms that can confer vulnerability to addiction and comorbid psychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder. The project will utilize chemogenetic and fiber photometry techniques to examine the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $290,312 to The Washington University in St. Louis to develop a postdoctoral training program called "Promoting Excellence through Pain and Addiction Research Enhancement (PREPARE)". The PREPARE program aims to recruit and train early career investigators to conduct clinical research on the intersection 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,...