Interdisciplinary mentoring in adolescent/young adult alcohol and drug research

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的总体目标是加强和扩展克里斯托弗·马丁博士在青少年和年轻人酒精和毒品问题方面的以病人为导向的研究（POR）计划，在指导一组有潜力成为该领域未来领导者的优秀学员的背景下。马丁博士是一名职业生涯中期的研究者，在POR方面有着良好的记录和持续的资助，以及成功指导和研究培训的历史。努力和薪金支助将包括对杰出的年轻研究人员进行密集指导，以及在健康差异和成瘾遗传学方面开展职业发展活动，以加强指导活动。指导和职业发展活动是高度整合的，相互促进的目标是促进培训生的职业发展和加强马丁博士的POR项目。两名受训人员是获得K-奖的初级教员，马丁博士担任其中的共同导师：一项是非裔美国青年尼古丁依赖相关性的NCI资助，一项是非裔美国青年尼古丁依赖相关性的NIDA资助，以及一项药物使用和危险性行为的NIDA资助。另一名受训者将于2012年9月开始以Martin博士为主要导师的博士后奖学金。马丁博士还将指导三名即将或刚刚完成研究生学业的优秀学员。这些受训者与Martin博士一样对纵向潜在变量建模和/或候选基因方法在发育和环境影响背景下的物质问题表型感兴趣。这些受训者将在这些主题上与马丁博士合作，他将作为导师帮助他们在匹兹堡或其他地方的博士后或初级教师职位上制定下一个资助提案。马丁博士将在K24期间确定和指导其他TBN博士后和初级教员培训生（例如，获得K23和K01支持的人员）。有丰富的机构资源可用于支持指导和研究计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this project is to enhance and expand Dr. Christopher Martin's patient-oriented research (POR) program in adolescent and young adult alcohol and drug problems, in the context of mentoring efforts with a set of outstanding trainees who have the potential to be future leaders in the field. Dr. Martin is a mid-career investigator with a strong track record and ongoing funding in POR, and a history of successful mentoring and research training. Effort and salary support will involve intensive mentoring with outstanding young investigators, and career development activities in health disparities and the genetics of addiction that will enhance the mentoring activities. The mentoring and career development activities are highly integrated, with the mutually reinforcing goals of advancing trainee careers and enhancing Dr. Martin's program of POR. Two trainees are junior faculty members with K- awards on which Dr. Martin serves as co-mentor: an NCI grant on the correlates of Nicotine Dependence in African-American youth, and an NIDA grant on substance use and risky sex. Another trainee will begin a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Martin as primary mentor beginning 9/2012. Dr. Martin also will mentor three outstanding trainees who will soon finish or have recently finished graduate school. These trainees share Dr. Martin's interests in longitudinal latent variable modeling and/or candidate gene approaches to substance problem phenotypes in the context of developmental and environmental influences. These trainees will collaborate on these topics with Dr. Martin, and he will serve as a mentor helping them develop their next grant proposal as they move on to postdoctoral or junior faculty positions in Pittsburgh or elsewhere. Dr. Martin will identify and mentor other TBN postdoctoral and junior faculty trainees (e.g., those with K23 and K01 support) during the K24 period. There are a rich set of institutional resources available to support the mentoring and research plans. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overall goal of this project is to enhance and expand Dr. Christopher Martin's patient- oriented research (POR) program in adolescent and young adult alcohol and drug problems, in the context of mentoring efforts with pre-and post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty. The mentoring will help train outstanding young investigators. The research will directly advance knowledge of the causes and clinical course of adolescent and young adult substance problems.