Enhanced Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute

项目摘要 此重新提交申请要求加强跨学科研究培训的支持 研究所（eIRTI）将实施一项旨在加强研究的研究教育计划， 通过加强和增加独立资助的西班牙裔调查人员的数量， 在生物医学、行为和临床药物和酒精滥用和成瘾方面， research.该计划建立在一个成功开发的研究教育计划的九年 (IRTI 5 R25 DA 026401）旨在促进职业发展的广泛职业地位 对在西班牙裔人群中进行药物研究感兴趣的调查人员。建议的eIRTI 正在加强提供全面和协调的努力，重点是提供研究 经验和提高准备和提交竞争性研究所需的技能 申请NIH校外资助。eIRTI的具体目标是：1）提供教育 培训机会，以提高研究经验和技能，进行西班牙物质 滥用研究和开发申请国家卫生研究院的资金之间6博士前，博士后和早期 职业调查员每年与密集的夏季研究培训计划的实施; 2)执行围绕跨学科高级教师团队构建的指导计划（三指导） 导师和IRTI校友同行导师谁将是可访问的，并提供选定的研究员 有重点的指导和持续的支持;并提供一个网络结构和过程， 协助研究员与该领域的顶尖专家建立和保持关系和沟通 和其他研究者的研究成果辅导活动将侧重于指导和 协助研究员达到基准，包括：a）NIH研究资金; B）学术生涯 （c）科学出版物和介绍。这些成果将通过各种方式得到促进。 eIRTI提供的支持类型包括：导师承诺、前往导师机构、eIRTI 指导年会，会议/研讨会，和电子指导技术（缩放）。eIRTI是 结合了几项方案创新，包括增加了一个对等网络组件， 我们庞大的IRTI校友池和我们的参与导师参与的机会， 专业发展讲习班，以提供指导。当代艺术的复杂性和技术性 药物和酒精滥用和成瘾研究要求竞争性NIH研究人员开发一个广泛的， 基础科学知识和科学研究技能，这将有助于编写和 实施竞争性NIH研究。eIRTI能够很好地提供丰富的 一个由“导师文化”驱动的环境，具有明确的组织结构和机制 促进和便利学员顺利过渡到随后的职业阶段。

Project Summary This resubmission application requests support of the enhanced Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute (eIRTI) that will implement a research education program aimed at strengthening the research pipeline by enhancing and increasing the number of independently funded Hispanic investigators that have gone underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral and clinical drug and alcohol abuse and addiction research. This program builds upon the nine years of a successfully developed research education program (IRTI 5R25DA026401) aimed at promoting the career development of a broad range of career status investigators interested in conducting drug research among the Hispanic population. The proposed eIRTI is being enhanced to deliver a comprehensive and coordinated effort focused on providing research experience and increasing the skills required for the preparation and submission of competitive research applications for NIH extramural funding. The specific aims of the eIRTI are to: 1) Provide an educational training opportunity to enhance the research experiences and skills for conducting Hispanic substance abuse research and developing applications for NIH funding among 6 pre-doctoral, postdoctoral and early career investigators per year with the implementation of an intensive summer research training program; 2) Execute a mentoring plan (Tri-Mentoring) structured around a team of interdisciplinary senior faculty mentors and IRTI alumni peer mentors who would be accessible and available to provide selected fellows with focused mentoring and continued support; and provide a networking structure and process that will assist fellows in building and maintaining relationships and communication with leading experts in the field of Hispanic substance abuse research and fellow peers. Mentoring activities will focus on guiding and assisting the fellows in achieving benchmarks including: a) NIH research funding; b) academic career progress; c) scientific publications and presentations. These outcomes will be facilitated through various types of support provided by the eIRTI including: Mentor Commitment, Travel to Mentor Institution, eIRTI Mentoring Annual Meeting, Conferences/Workshops, and E-Mentoring Technologies (Zoom). The eIRTI is incorporating several programmatic innovations including the addition of a peer network component using our large pool of IRTI alumni and the opportunity for our participating mentors to participate in professional development workshops for mentorship. The complex and technical nature of contemporary drug and alcohol abuse and addiction research requires that competitive NIH investigators develop a broad- based set of scientific knowledge and scientific research skills that will facilitate the preparation and implementation of competitive NIH research. The eIRTI is well positioned to provide an enriched environment driven by a “culture of mentorship” that has a clear organizing structure as well as mechanisms to enhance and facilitate the successful transition of participants to their subsequent career stage.