Career Development and Mentoring in Clinical/Translational Alcohol Research

描述(由申请者提供)：高级科学家研究和导师奖面向“在生物医学研究中证明了持续高生产率的杰出资深科学家”，以保护他们继续研究的时间，同时指导“下一代”研究人员。拥有超过25年的临床酒精研究经验(20多项临床试验、渴求(OCDs)、饮酒生物标记物(CDT)、神经成像，以及最近在遗传和药物基因组学方面的经验)，超过15年的R01持续资助，16年担任酒精研究中心的科学主任，拥有245篇同行评议的论文，并获得国际认可，符合并超过了作为一名杰出资深科学家的要求。他曾被选为领先的学术/研究学会的高级领导职位，曾是联合研究的负责人，并因其在弥合基础研究和临床研究之间的差距方面的专业知识而被选为导师。他在保持积极的酒精研究培训计划的同时完成了这一目标，包括担任NIAAA赞助的T32研究培训基金的主任或联席主任20年。他亲自指导了34名专业人士(23名医学博士和11名博士)，其中20名是在过去4年中指导的。许多人已经获得了职业发展和独立的酒精研究资金，并仍然与酒精领域捆绑在一起。他对酒精障碍治疗的机制和应用的理解是不典型的，也是罕见的。这个奖项对候选人来说很重要，主要有两个原因。首先，它将为他提供有保障的时间，使他能够继续在遗传学(例如表观遗传学)、蛋白质组学(例如糖蛋白组学)和新的/高级神经成像技术(fMRI连接性分析、扩散峰度和H1-磁共振波谱)方面的正式和非正式培训，将这些基本科学领域应用于他自己的酒精研究(如概述的)，并向酒精治疗领域一般交流新发现。其次，这一奖项将为候选人提供保护时间，使其免于承担额外的临床和行政职责，以便将其丰富的经验和新获得的技能应用于他的指导活动和年轻临床科学家的发展。随着美国国立卫生研究院和美国医学院协会强调，美国对临床和翻译研究人员(特别是在基因组学领域)的巨大需求尚未得到满足，数百万美国人患有酒精障碍，他们得不到服务，每年给美国经济造成的损失超过2000亿美元，因此有必要推动临床研究，需要确保我们的资深科学家处于自己研究的前沿，需要培训未来的科学家来进行这项研究，以找到有效的治疗方法。K05高级科学家职业生涯和导师奖将使这一目标得以实现。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award is targeted for "outstanding senior scientists who have demonstrated a sustained level of high productivity conducting biomedical research" in order to protect their time to continue research while mentoring the "next generation" of investigators. With more than 25 years of experience in clinical alcohol research (over 20 clinical trials, seminal work in craving (OCDS), biomarkers of drinking (CDT), neuroimaging, and more recently in genetic and pharmacogenomics), over 15 years of continued R01 funding, 16 years of being a Scientific Director of an Alcohol Research Center, with 245 peer reviewed publications, and international recognition, the candidate meets and exceeds the requirements as an outstanding senior scientist. He has been elected to high leadership positions of leading academic/research societies, a previous leader of the COMBINE Study, and is sought out as a mentor for his expertise in bridging the gap between basic and clinical research. He has accomplished this while maintaining an active training program in alcohol research, including 20 years as Director or Co-Director of an NIAAA-sponsored T32 Research Training Grant. He has personally mentored 34 professionals (23 MDs and 11 PhDs), 20 of those in the past 4 years. Many have secured career development and independent alcohol research funding and remain tied to the alcohol field. His understanding of both the mechanisms of, and applications to, the treatment of alcohol disorders is atypical and rare. This award is important to the candidate for two major reasons. First, it will provide him with protected time to keep his alcohol research career on the cutting edge by enabling him to continue formal and informal training in genetics (e.g. epigenetics), proteomics (e.g. glycoproteomics), and new/advanced neuroimaging skills (fMRI connectivity analysis, diffusion kurtosis, and H1-magnetic resonance spectroscopy), apply these essential areas of science to his own alcohol research (as outlined), and communicate new discoveries to the alcohol treatment field in general. Second, this award will provide the candidate with protected time from additional clinical and administrative duties to apply his vast experience and newly acquired skills to his mentoring activities and the development of younger clinical- scientists. With the NIH and the American Association of Medical Colleges highlighting the large, unmet need in the U.S. for clinical and translational researchers (especially in the area of genomics) and with millions of Americans suffering from alcohol disorders, who are underserved and who cost the US economy over $200 billion each year, there is a need to push clinical research forward, a need to ensure our senior scientists are on the cutting edge in their own research, and a need to train future scientists to carry on this research to find effective treatments. This K05 Senior Scientist Career and Mentoring Award will allow this to happen.