Behavioral Sciences Training in Drug Abuse Research

描述（由申请人提供）：自1984年成立以来，药物滥用研究行为科学培训计划（BST）已成为全国规模最大，历史最悠久的NRSA培训计划之一，专门从事药物滥用及其相关问题的行为科学研究，特别是艾滋病毒/艾滋病和刑事司法。BST项目培养了185名博士生和博士后，其中近一半是少数民族。本申请要求授权在第31至35年每年维持目前的任命水平（7名博士后和9名博士预科学员）。BST方案在跨学术环境中运作，涉及四个合作机构：公共卫生解决方案，赠款管理机构；国家发展研究机构（NDRI），培训地点；纽约大学艾滋病毒和药物使用研究中心（与NDRI合作的机构）；以及哥伦比亚大学附属机构梅尔曼公共卫生学院（MSPH）的社会医学科学系。首席研究员Gregory Falkin博士管理BST项目已有28年；他与该项目的科学主任乔治·德莱昂博士在科学和行政操作的各个方面密切合作。BST核心教师由来自4个参与组织的45名主要研究人员组成，他们为BST学员提供高度结构化和严格的指导。BST的使命是培养行为科学家，特别是少数种族/民族，从事药物滥用研究和相关领域的职业。这是通过(1)招募和任命有前途的科学家（其中至少三分之一是少数民族）担任实习生来实现的；(2)提供包括理论、研究方法和实践在内的实质性主题的高级培训，以及负责任的研究行为；(3)在BST期间，对受训者的职业生涯、研究和NIH拨款申请进行指导和建议。除了各种各样的每周研讨会和讲习班外，学员还定期参加有监督的研究——BST核心教师约有180个赠款和合同——并鼓励他们发展和开展自己的独立研究。除了在准学术环境中操作外，BST项目的显著特点是学员包括一个来自广泛行为学科的多学科群体，可以灵活选择

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Since its inception in 1984, the Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research Program (BST) has become one of the nation's largest and oldest NRSA training programs, specializing in behavioral science research on drug abuse and related issues, especially HIV/AIDS and criminal justice. The BST program has trained 185 predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees-nearly half of them racial/ethnic minorities. This application requests authorization to maintain the current levels of appointments (7 postdoctoral and 9 predoctoral trainees) during each of Years 31 to 35. The BST program operates in a trans-academic environment and involves four collaborating institutions: Public Health Solutions, the grant administrator; National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI), the training site; NYU's Center for HIV and Drug Use Research (a collaborating agency with NDRI); and the Department of Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH) at Columbia University, the university affiliate. The Principal Investigator, Dr. Gregory Falkin has managed the BST program for 28 years; he works closely with Dr. George De Leon, the program's Scientific Director, in all aspects of scientific and administrative operations. The BST core faculty consists of 45 leading researchers from the 4 participating organizations who provide highly structured and rigorous mentoring for BST trainees. The BST mission is to prepare behavioral scientists, especially racial/ethnic minorities, for careers in drug abuse research and allied fields. This is accomplished by (1) recruiting and appointing promising scientists, at least one third of whom are minorities, for traineeships; (2) providing advanced training in substantive topics including theory, research methods and practices, and the responsible conduct of research; and, (3) mentoring and advising trainees on their careers as well as their research and NIH grant submissions while in BST. In addition to a variety of weekly seminars and workshops, trainees participate regularly in supervised research-ample opportunities exist on about 180 grants and contracts of BST core faculty-and are encouraged to develop and conduct their own independent research. In addition to operating in a quasi-academic environment, distinguishing features of the BST program are that trainees comprise a multidisciplinary group from a wide range of behavioral disciplines, have the flexibility to choose the projects they will apprentice on from a large number of NIH studies, are encouraged to work on independent research, and postdocs are required to submit their own grant applications to NIDA. Together, these key features make BST a truly unique T32 training program. The BST's long-standing success is evident in the significant contributions of its 170 graduates and 15 current fellows. Many former trainees have distinguished themselves through research and publications-the number of publications by current and former trainees is conservatively estimated at over 1,250. BST trainees have been funded as PIs on over 30 grants from NIH, been Co-investigators on more than 40 NIH-funded projects, and obtained over 100 grants from other sources.