Administrative Core

五年前，塔夫茨营养合作-药物滥用和艾滋病研究中心(TNC-CDAAR) 是为回应NIDA的RFA而提供资金的，NIDA只是全国两家CDAAR之一。CDAAR是 肩负以下使命：促进药物滥用和成瘾研究的协作方法； 如果没有研究中心的气候、设施和资源，研究就不会发生 能够独一无二地提供；作为一种资源来吸引成熟的和有前途的研究人员进入药物领域 并为研究培训、职业发展和指导提供机会。这个 TNC-CDAAR是东海岸三所机构(塔夫茨、布朗和约翰斯)之间的合作伙伴关系 霍普金斯大学)，重点研究HIV阳性和HIV阴性患者的营养和代谢障碍 吸毒者。在过去的五年里，我们扩大了TNC-CDAAR的范围，将合作者包括在内 来自3个国际站点：阿根廷、印度和越南。到目前为止，我们的主要成就是 1)设计和实施几项新的研究，以评估和比较以下疾病的患病率和发病率 美国和国外不同种族吸毒者的特定营养和代谢障碍； 2)为希望进行类似研究的研究人员开发培训材料、方案和手册 在他们所在的地方；3)在与中心相关的研究领域帮助制定新的拨款建议；以及 4)成为吸毒者营养和代谢紊乱的资源中心。该中心将继续 努力提高人们对营养和代谢紊乱对药物疗效的重要性的认识 使用人群，并鼓励研究人员将营养和代谢状态的研究纳入他们的 对吸毒人群的研究。五个中心核心将继续协同工作，以提供 为中心会员提供多种服务。具体地说，行政核心监督、组织和 维持药物使用者代谢研究中心(CDAAR)作为 整体上，确保了中心的顺利运行和管理。管理核心提供 必要的科学领导，以确定中心的优先事项，总体目标是激励新的和 艾滋病病毒感染和药物使用对营养和代谢影响的合作研究 吸毒者社区，建议具体关注肝炎或肝功能障碍对 这些对吸毒者的营养和代谢影响。

Five years ago, the Tufts Nutrition Collaborative - Center for Drug Abuse and AIDS Research (TNC-CDAAR) was funded in response to an RFA from NIDA as just one of two CDAAR's in the nation. The CDAARs were charged with the following mission: to foster a collaborative approach to drug abuse and addiction research; to enable studies that would not occur without the climate, facilities, and resources that a research center can uniquely provide; to serve as a resource to attract established and promising investigators into drug abuse research; and to provide opportunities for research training, career development, and mentoring. The TNC-CDAAR was formed as a partnership between three East Coast Institutions (Tufts, Brown and Johns Hopkins) with a specific focus on studying nutritional and metabolic disorders among HIV-positive and HIVnegative drug users. Over the past five years, we have expanded the TNC-CDAAR to include collaborators from 3 international sites: Argentina, India, and Vietnam. Our major accomplishments, thus far, have been to 1) design and implement several new studies to assess and compare the prevalence and incidence of specific nutritional and metabolic disorders in drug users of different ethnicities, both in the U.S. and abroad; 2) develop training materials, protocols, and manuals for investigators who want to undertake similar studies in their localities; 3) help in the development of new grant proposals in Center-related areas of research; and 4) become a resource center on nutrition and metabolic disorders in drug users. The Center will continue to work to raise awareness of the importance of nutritional and metabolic disorders on outcomes in the drug using population and to encourage investigators to include studies of nutritional and metabolic status in their research in drug using populations. The five Center Cores will continue to work synergistically to provide a multitude of services for Center Members. Specifically, the Administrative Core oversees, organizes and maintains the policies and procedures of the Center for Metabolic Research in Drug Users (CDAAR) as a whole, ensuring smooth operation and management of the Center. The Administrative Core provides the scientific leadership necessary to set the priorities for the Center, with an overall goal of stimulating new and collaborative research on the nutritional, and metabolic effects of HIV infection and drug use among various communities of drug users with a proposed specific focus on the impact of hepatitis or liver dysfunction on these nutritional and metabolic effects in drug users.