MIDARP AT HUNTER COLLEGE

纽约城市大学亨特学院的少数族裔人口历来很高（超过50%）。我们的目标是在亨特开发一个项目，利用现有的优势，扩大和鼓励亨特的药物滥用研究。 该药物滥用研究计划将包括对不同药物滥用的分子，细胞和行为水平的研究。 它将包括活跃的研究教师，研究生和本科生研究生，以及心理学和生物学系的技术支持人员，他们都有兴趣将成瘾理解为一种大脑疾病，或者希望将他们的研究工作推向这个方向。 建议的目的是加强亨特的研究基础设施，以促进我们在药物滥用研究的努力，在我们的部门在这一研究领域内开发个人项目，并激发其他教师和我们的学生，无论是在本科生和研究生水平，在药物滥用研究的兴趣。 该中心的一个整体目标是促进少数民族本科生和研究生的职业发展，他们将成为未来的独立科学家。 提出的具体项目包括：1）甲基苯丙胺致敏机制; 2）药物成瘾和冲动行为的神经生物学; 3）压力和精神兴奋剂药物在行为敏感性和记忆中的相互作用;以及4）可卡因诱导的中枢神经系统改变中的发情周期和性别差异的影响。 PI不提交研究项目，是一项既定的药物滥用研究，将担任这些项目的顾问和初级科学家的导师。我们五个人中有三个是西班牙裔科学家，两个非少数民族科学家有着培训少数民族学者的悠久历史，是COR、MARC和MBRS赠款管理的一部分。 这五个机构中有三个在与荷兰国际开发署使命一致的领域工作，另外两个正在朝这个方向努力。最后，我们中的两个人是资深科学家，每个人都有超过25年的研究经验，并将担任导师，以更初级的教师，特别是两个教师谁加入亨特今年。 这种指导机制是建立在我们的合作和项目本身中的。

Hunter College of the City University of New York has a traditionally high (greater than 50 percent) minority population. It is our goal to develop a program at Hunter that draws on existing strengths to broaden and encourage drug abuse research at Hunter. This program for studies on drug abuse will encompass research on the molecular, cellular, and behavioral level in response to different drugs of abuse. It will include active research faculty, graduate and undergraduate research students, and technical support personnel in the Psychology and Biology Departments, who share an interest in understanding addiction as a brain disease or who want to move their research efforts in that direction. The aims of proposal are to enhance the research infrastructure of Hunter to facilitate our efforts in drug abuse research, develop individual projects within our departments within this area of research, and to stimulate the interest of other faculty and our students, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in research on drug abuse. An integral goal of this center is to facilitate the career development of minority undergraduate and graduate students who will become the independent scientists of the future. The specific projects proposed include: 1) Mechanism of sensitization to methamphetamine; 2) Neurobiology of drug addiction and impulsive behavior; 3) Interactions between stress and psychostimulant drugs in behavioral sensitivity and memory; and 4) Effects of the estrous cycle and gender differences in cocaine-induced alterations in the CNS. The PI, who is not submitting a research project is an established drug abuse research and will serve as advisor on these projects and mentor to the junior scientists. Three of the five of us are Hispanic scientists and the two non- minority scientists have a long history of training minority scholars and are part of the administration of the COR, MARC and MBRS grants. Three of the five work in areas consistent with the NIDA mission and the other two are moving in that direction. Finally, two of us are senior scientists with over 25 years of research experience each and will serve as mentors to the more junior faculty of this group, especially the two faculty who have joined Hunter this year. The mechanisms for this mentoring are built into the collaborations that we have and the program itself.