Rutgers Training in Addiction Research Program

项目总结/摘要 目前计划的首要目标是统一物质使用障碍研究的培训， 罗格斯皮斯卡特维/新玩法，包括基础和人体成像的现有优势 research.其结果是罗格斯大学成瘾研究培训计划（TARP），旨在招募一名 一批优秀的博士前和博士后研究人员，并为他们提供严格的， 在跨学科成瘾重点研究的全面培训。我们的目标是让所有学员都能获得 对成瘾神经科学研究的欣赏，从细胞到回路再到行为。我们的教师 代表了一个非凡的范围成瘾研究的专业知识，从表观遗传学到人类成像。的 13名参与导师，他们每年总共拥有超过1000万美元的积极研究支持， 我有几十年的集体经验，培训了几十名学生和研究员，他们已经成功地 在学术界、工业界和政府中的职业生涯。更多的高级项目导师包括加里·阿斯顿·琼斯博士， 丹妮尔·迪克，彭志平和大卫·扎尔德。项目主任克里斯·皮尔斯博士发起并共同指导了一项 NIDA资助的翻译成瘾培训计划（前和博士后）在大学超过九年 在他于2020年初搬到罗格斯之前，宾夕法尼亚州。建议的博士前和博士后培训 通过旨在促进受训者之间互动的活动、方案和课程来整合方案 以及整个罗格斯大学成瘾研究社区。这些联合活动满足了许多 该计划的目标包括实践交流研究成果，指导当代成瘾 神经科学研究，资助写作，批判成瘾神经科学研究文献，网络， 所有培训活动还强调研究的道德行为， 科学严谨性和可重复性的重要性。虽然罗格斯大学的研究和教学方面 不良资产救助计划是神经科学的重点（基础科学和人类成像），我们也努力给我们的学员一个 更好地了解整个领域，包括与开发治疗相关的挑战 治疗药物滥用我们的目标是更好地装备下一代的成瘾者 神经科学研究人员应用新的和创新的方法来开发新的疗法， 也许比以往任何时候都更需要。

Project Summary/Abstract The over-arching goal of the current program is to unify the training in substance use disorder research at Rutgers Piscataway/New Brunswick encompassing the existing strengths in basic and human imaging research. The result is the Rutgers Training Program in Addiction Research (TARP), which aims to recruit a diverse group of outstanding predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers and provide them with rigorous and comprehensive training in interdisciplinary addiction-focused research. The goal is for all trainees to gain an appreciation of addiction neuroscience research from cells to circuits to behavior. Our faculty members represent an extraordinary range of addiction research expertise, from epigenetics to human imaging. The thirteen participating mentors, who together hold over $10 million dollars in annual active research support, have decades of collective experience training dozens of students and fellows who have gone on to successful careers in academia, industry and government. More senior program mentors include Drs. Gary Aston-Jones, Danielle Dick, Zhiping Pang and David Zald. The program director, Dr. Chris Pierce, initiated and co-directed a NIDA-funded translational addiction training program (pre- and postdocs) for over nine years at the University of Pennsylvania before he moved to Rutgers in early 2020. The proposed predoctoral and postdoctoral training programs are integrated through events, programs and courses designed to foster interactions among trainees as well as the Rutgers addiction research community as a whole. These joint activities satisfy many of the goals of the program including practice communicating research findings, instruction in contemporary addiction neuroscience research, grant writing, critiquing the addiction neuroscience research literature, networking, leadership, career development, etc. All training activities also emphasize ethical conduct of research and the importance of scientific rigor and reproducibility. Although the research and didactic aspects of the Rutgers TARP are neuroscience focused (basic science and human imaging) we also strive to give our trainees a better understanding of the totality of the field including the challenges associated with developing treatments for substance use disorders. Our over-arching goal is to better equip the next generation of addiction neuroscience researchers to apply novel and innovative approaches to develop new therapies, which are needed now perhaps more than ever.