Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA)

代表性不足的成瘾研究中心 (CURA)

• 批准号: 10762619
• 负责人: Gonzalo E. Torres
• 金额: $ 26.73万
• 依托单位: LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10762619
• 关键词: Center; Underrepresented; Research; Addiction; CURA

ABSTRACT Despite many years of discussion, research, and efforts to promote change, a great disparity remains between the presence of African American, Hispanic, Native American, People with Disabilities, and other underrepresented minority (URM) faculty at US research universities and their representation in the US population. This reality is no less true in the neurosciences than in other disciplines. Moreover, URMs who do achieve faculty status appear to achieve traditional measures of success at a lower rate than do their majority counterparts. Although data on publications and funding rates appear to be lacking, there is a striking absence of URMs in visible positions of prominence as full professors or chairs at universities and as symposia speakers, journal editors, or societal officers. We believe that these two problems are related – that if those URMs who are faculty become more successful in regard to those measures, this in turn will stimulate an influx of other URMs into faculty ranks. Our evaluation of available programs in the US indicates that there are limited opportunities to adequately assist early career URM faculty in overcoming these difficulties, and it is this problem that we seek to address through the Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA) to promote the advancement of junior faculty members in drug addiction research at research universities. Defining success for such faculty in terms of quality and quantity of manuscripts, grants submitted, and funded, visibility at the national level, mentoring of others by the participants, and promotion, we propose to establish a program based on the following hypothesis: The success of early career URM faculty in drug addiction research can be increased substantially by an intensive individualized educational program focused on (1) and individualized career development plan and the identification of a team of relevant mentors (2) strong instruction in professional skills and the responsible conduct of research (RCR), (3) individualized and frequent mentoring by senior established faculty (4) development of an expanded network and peer-mentoring, and (5) the promotion and enhancement of the career of URM faculty at their own institutions. To test this hypothesis, we will develop the CURA program to advance the career of URM faculty. We will recruit 10 early career URM faculty in drug addiction research each year for five years who have great promise for success. We will then develop career development programs for each participant and together the participant and mentoring team will develop a career development plan. To facilitate that plan we will establish a one-year educational program consisting of (a) workshops, (b) strong mentoring, (c) attendance at professional scientific meetings, (d) assistance in the expansion of their network, and (e) mechanisms to promote communication and peer-mentoring among the participants. The impact of our efforts will be evaluated and the results disseminated at meetings and in publications. We believe that this approach will have a significant impact on the success of early career URM faculty in the neurosciences and will serve as a model for programs in other areas of academia.

摘要 尽管经过多年的讨论、研究和努力来促进变革， 非裔美国人，西班牙裔，美洲原住民，残疾人和其他人的存在 美国研究型大学的少数族裔教师及其在美国的代表性 人口这一事实在神经科学中并不比在其他学科中更真实。此外， 获得教师地位的人似乎比他们的大多数人以更低的速度获得传统的成功标准 同行虽然似乎缺乏关于出版物和供资率的数据， 作为大学教授或教授以及专题讨论会发言人， 期刊编辑或社会官员。我们认为，这两个问题是相关的-如果那些 教师在这些措施方面变得更加成功，这反过来又会刺激其他URM的涌入 进入教职员工行列我们对美国现有项目的评估表明， 充分帮助早期职业URM教师克服这些困难，这是我们寻求的问题 通过成瘾问题代表性不足研究中心（CURA）， 在研究型大学从事药物成瘾研究的初级教员。为这样的教师定义成功 就稿件的质量和数量、提交的赠款和资金、在国家一级的知名度而言， 通过参与者对他人的指导和推广，我们建议建立一个基于以下内容的计划 假设：早期职业URM教师在药物成瘾研究中的成功可以大大增加 通过集中的个性化教育计划（1）和个性化的职业发展计划， 和确定一个相关的导师团队（2）在专业技能和责任方面的强有力的指导 进行研究（RCR），（3）由资深教师进行个性化和频繁的指导（4） 发展扩大的网络和同行指导，以及（5）促进和加强职业生涯 在他们自己的机构里。为了验证这一假设，我们将开发CURA程序， URM教师的职业生涯。我们每年将招募10名早期职业URM教师从事药物成瘾研究， 五年来，他们有很大的成功希望。然后，我们将为每个人制定职业发展计划 参与者和参与者及辅导团队将共同制定职业发展计划。以促进 根据该计划，我们将建立一个为期一年的教育方案，包括（a）讲习班，（B）强有力的指导，（c） 参加专业科学会议，（d）协助扩大其网络，以及（e） 促进参与者之间的沟通和同行指导的机制。我们努力的影响 将进行评估，并在会议上和出版物中传播评估结果。我们相信这种方法 将对神经科学早期职业URM教师的成功产生重大影响，并将作为 为学术界其他领域的项目树立了榜样。