Scientific Training in Addiction Research Techniques (START) for gifted future investigators from historically underrepresented and underserved backgrounds.

成瘾研究技术科学培训 (START)，面向来自历史上代表性不足和服务不足的背景的有天赋的未来研究人员。

• 批准号: 10741281
• 负责人: HUGH P. GARAVAN
• 金额: $ 36.6万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-15 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10741281
• 关键词: Academia; Achievement; Adolescence; Adolescent; Affect; Age; Attention; Award; Brain; Caliber; Child Health; Clinical; Collection; Communities; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Data Set; Dedications; Development; Dimensions; Disadvantaged; Disparity; Drug abuse; Elements; Employment; Enrollment; Environment; Evaluation; Face; Faculty; Financial Support; Funding; Funding Opportunities; Future; Generations; Gifts; Goals; Grant; Instruction; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Monitor; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Ontology; Participant; Persons; Postdoctoral Fellow; Professional Practice; Program Evaluation; Publications; Publishing; Qualifying; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Technics; Resources; Scientist; Special Population; Students; Substance Addiction; Talents; Time; Time Management; Training; Training Programs; Training Technics; Underrepresented Minority; United States; Writing; addiction; career; cognitive development; cohort; data access; data dissemination; data structure; diversity and inclusion; drug misuse; education research; experience; improved; matriculation; meetings; member; minority communities; minority scientist; neighborhood disadvantage; next generation; open data; pedagogy; peer; pre-doctoral; professor; programs; recruit; research data dissemination; role model; senior faculty; skills; social; social factors; substance misuse; substance use; trend; undergraduate student

PROJECT SUMMARY National and global substance misuse challenges require sustainable pipelines of elite investigators with a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and talents. Despite initiatives to promote diversity, certain groups remain grossly underrepresented in the field. Many URM and disadvantaged scholars face multidimensional historical and social obstacles that limit their access to the early enrichment, rigorous training, effective mentoring, nourishing environments and financial support necessary to become drug misuse scientists. There is a publication and funding award disparity between traditional students versus URM, disadvantaged or first- generation investigators. These disparities are due in part to training gaps that occur in undergraduate matriculation and have domino effects throughout one’s career to adversely affect employment, tenure qualifications, and other aspects of academic life. The scarcity of URM scholars in drug abuse research is particularly problematic as minority and disadvantaged communities have historically suffered disproportionately from substance misuse crises. It is essential that we arrest these trends by developing optimal training programs for URM scholars. To that end, we propose a year-long comprehensive research education program titled “Scientific Training in Addiction Research Techniques (START) for gifted future investigators from historically underrepresented and underserved backgrounds.” START specifically prepares investigators to access, analyze, and disseminate data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study through both mentored research experiences and didactic skill-building courses. The ABCD Study is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States and uses an “open science” framework to make all data publicly available. Trainees will complete coursework to support their professional development, and will complete an independent, mentored research project using ABCD data. Start scholars will present and/or publish their scientific findings, and a comprehensive program evaluation will monitor trainees, mentors, and the program as a whole. The overarching goal of START is to create a diverse pipeline of substance misuse clinical researchers who are trained in the analysis and dissemination of data from the ABCD study.

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