Administrative Core

五年前，塔夫茨营养协作-药物滥用和艾滋病研究中心（TNC-CDAAR） 作为全国两个CDAAR之一，NIDA为RFA提供了资金。CDAAR是 负责以下使命：促进对药物滥用和致瘾研究采取合作办法; 如果没有研究中心所具备的气候、设施和资源， 可以独特地提供;作为一种资源，吸引建立和有前途的研究人员进入药物 滥用研究;并提供研究培训、职业发展和指导的机会。的 TNC-CDAAR是由三个东海岸机构（塔夫茨大学、布朗大学和约翰大学）合作成立的 霍普金斯），特别侧重于研究艾滋病毒阳性和阴性人群的营养和代谢紊乱 吸毒者在过去的五年里，我们扩大了TNC-CDAAR，将合作者包括在内。 来自3个国际站点：阿根廷、印度和越南。迄今为止，我们的主要成就是 1)设计和实施几项新的研究，以评估和比较 美国和国外不同种族吸毒者的特定营养和代谢紊乱; 2)为希望进行类似研究的研究者制定培训材料、方案和手册 3）帮助开发与中心相关的研究领域的新赠款提案;以及 4)成为吸毒者营养和代谢紊乱的资源中心。中心将继续 努力提高人们对营养和代谢紊乱对药物治疗结果的重要性的认识 使用人口，并鼓励研究人员将营养和代谢状况的研究纳入他们的研究中。 对吸毒人群的研究。五个中心核心将继续协同工作， 为中心会员提供多种服务。具体而言，行政核心负责监督、组织和 维持吸毒者代谢研究中心（CDAAR）的政策和程序， 确保中心的顺利运行和管理。行政核心提供了 科学的领导，为中心的优先事项，与刺激新的， 艾滋病毒感染和药物使用对营养和代谢的影响， 建议具体侧重于肝炎或肝功能障碍对吸毒者的影响， 这些营养和代谢的影响。

Five years ago, the Tufts Nutrition Collaborative - Center for Drug Abuse and AIDS Research (TNC-CDAAR) was funded in response to an RFA from NIDA as just one of two CDAAR's in the nation. The CDAARs were charged with the following mission: to foster a collaborative approach to drug abuse and addiction research; to enable studies that would not occur without the climate, facilities, and resources that a research center can uniquely provide; to serve as a resource to attract established and promising investigators into drug abuse research; and to provide opportunities for research training, career development, and mentoring. The TNC-CDAAR was formed as a partnership between three East Coast Institutions (Tufts, Brown and Johns Hopkins) with a specific focus on studying nutritional and metabolic disorders among HIV-positive and HIVnegative drug users. Over the past five years, we have expanded the TNC-CDAAR to include collaborators from 3 international sites: Argentina, India, and Vietnam. Our major accomplishments, thus far, have been to 1) design and implement several new studies to assess and compare the prevalence and incidence of specific nutritional and metabolic disorders in drug users of different ethnicities, both in the U.S. and abroad; 2) develop training materials, protocols, and manuals for investigators who want to undertake similar studies in their localities; 3) help in the development of new grant proposals in Center-related areas of research; and 4) become a resource center on nutrition and metabolic disorders in drug users. The Center will continue to work to raise awareness of the importance of nutritional and metabolic disorders on outcomes in the drug using population and to encourage investigators to include studies of nutritional and metabolic status in their research in drug using populations. The five Center Cores will continue to work synergistically to provide a multitude of services for Center Members. Specifically, the Administrative Core oversees, organizes and maintains the policies and procedures of the Center for Metabolic Research in Drug Users (CDAAR) as a whole, ensuring smooth operation and management of the Center. The Administrative Core provides the scientific leadership necessary to set the priorities for the Center, with an overall goal of stimulating new and collaborative research on the nutritional, and metabolic effects of HIV infection and drug use among various communities of drug users with a proposed specific focus on the impact of hepatitis or liver dysfunction on these nutritional and metabolic effects in drug users.