Behavioral Sciences Training in Drug Abuse Research

描述(由申请者提供)：自1984年成立以来，药物滥用行为科学培训研究计划(BST)已成为美国最大和最古老的NRSA培训计划之一，专门从事药物滥用和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项目已经培训了185名博士后和博士后学员--其中近一半是少数民族。这项申请要求授权在第31至35年的每一年中维持目前的任用水平(7名博士后和9名博士后实习生)。BST计划在一个跨学术的环境中运作，涉及四个合作机构：拨款管理人公共卫生解决方案；培训地点国家发展和研究机构公司(NDRI)；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大学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计划长达28年之久；他与该计划的科学总监George De Leon博士在科学和行政运作的所有方面密切合作。BST核心教员由来自4个参与组织的45名顶尖研究人员组成，他们为BST学员提供高度结构化和严格的指导。BST的任务是为行为科学家，特别是种族/少数民族，在药物滥用研究和相关领域的职业生涯做准备。这是通过以下方式实现的：(1)招聘和任命有前途的科学家，其中至少三分之一是少数族裔；(2)提供关于实质性主题的高级培训，包括理论、研究方法和实践，以及负责任的研究行为；(3)指导和咨询受训人员在BST期间的职业以及他们的研究和NIH拨款申请。除了各种每周研讨会和讲习班外，受训人员还定期参加监督研究--BST核心教员约180份补助金和合同提供了大量机会--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运作外，BST计划的显著特点是，受训人员由来自广泛行为学科的多学科小组组成，具有选择的灵活性 他们将从NIH的大量研究中学徒的项目，被鼓励从事独立研究，博士后被要求向NIDA提交自己的资助申请。总而言之，这些关键功能使BST成为真正独特的T32培训计划。BST的长期成功从170名毕业生和15名现任研究员的重大贡献中可见一斑。许多以前的受训人员通过研究和出版物出名--保守地估计，现在和以前的受训人员出版的出版物数量超过1250份。BST实习生从NIH获得了30多笔赠款，作为私人助理获得了资助，在NIH资助的40多个项目中担任联合调查员，并从其他来源获得了100多笔赠款。

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.