Research Education in Statistical Genetics of Substance Abuse

药物滥用统计遗传学研究教育

• 批准号: 8860162
• 负责人: MICHAEL CHURTON NEALE
• 金额: $ 20.95万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-30 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8860162
• 关键词: Address; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Applications Grants; Applied Genetics; Area; Behavioral; Behavioral Genetics; Bioinformatics; Biometry; Categories; Clinical; Communities; Comorbidity; Computer software; Computing Methodologies; Data; Data Set; Dependence; Development; Distance Learning; Doctor of Philosophy; Drug abuse; Education; Education Projects; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Environment; Faculty; Fellowship; Fostering; Funding; Future; Genetic; Genetic Research; Genetic study; Genotype; Goals; Graduate Education; Health; Human Genetics; Individual; Institutes; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Lead; Libraries; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mathematics; Measures; Mentors; Methodology; Methods; Methylation; Mission; Modeling; Molecular Genetics; Monitor; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Neurosciences; Organism; Participant; Pharmacology; Phase; Positioning Attribute; Prevention; Process; Psychology; Publishing; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Research Training; Statistical Methods; Substance Addiction; Substance abuse problem; Symptoms; Technology; Training; Training Programs; Universities; Virginia; career; clinical practice; cohort; computer science; design; falls; field study; flexibility; genetic epidemiology; genome sequencing; improved; innovation; meetings; metabolomics; multidisciplinary; neuroimaging; new technology; next generation sequencing; novel; personalized medicine; post-doctoral training; pre-doctoral; programs; psychogenetics; rapid growth; software development; statistics; therapy development; tool; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse R25 mechanism for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral research positions, infrastructure and workshops at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (VIPBG) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). The overall goal of this research education program is to provide an environment for the innovative development and applications of statistical genetics methodology relevant to substance use, abuse and dependence (SUAD). Our research education program will be further developed with new courses in Statistical Innovation, Advanced Statistical Genetics, Epidemiology of Drug Abuse and Neuroscience to foster interdisciplinary research, a key component of NIDA's mission. The research education program consists of pre-doctoral and postdoctoral components. Pre-doctoral participants pursue degrees in Psychiatric, Behavioral and Statistical Genetics, Human & Molecular Genetics, Biostatistics or Computer Science. This component is designed to recruit potential future investigators to research in statistical genetics focused on SUAD. The aim is to create a cohort of PhD graduates who have been exposed to, and begun to publish research in, this area. The postdoctoral component recognizes that many promising researchers have training relevant to, but not focused on, the statistical genetics of SUAD. This flexible 2-3 year post-doctoral training component guides young investigators to this field of study and provides them with integrated training that enables them to pursue careers in statistical genetics of SUAD. Research education is intended for individuals with training in mathematics, statistics, biostatistics, genetics, psychology, computer science or pharmacology and to those who have completed their clinical requirements for the MD degree. The postdoctoral component aims to educate independent investigators who contribute to efforts to identify and characterize the genetic and environmental determinants of SUAD, its development, prevention and treatment. Accordingly we: i) Offer and carefully monitor a multidisciplinary integrated research training program with a wide range of research opportunities; ii) Meet the needs for training in emerging research areas in SUAD; iii) Provide formal education and intensive mentoring to researchers from diverse academic and ethnic backgrounds; iv) Offer a specialized curriculum that merges strengths in SUAD research at our institution with training in methodological innovation; and v) Disseminate course materials, developed software, user guides and example scripts to the wider community by teaching workshops and maintaining a website with webcasts, podcasts and script libraries.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求美国国家药物滥用研究所的支持R25机制，用于弗吉尼亚州精神病学和行为遗传学研究所（VIPBG）的弗吉尼亚州联邦大学（VCU）的弗吉尼亚精神病学和行为遗传学研究所（VIPBG）的博士前和博士后研究职位，基础设施和研讨会。该研究教育计划的总体目标是为与物质使用，滥用和依赖性有关的统计遗传学方法的创新发展和应用提供一个环境（SUAD）。我们的研究教育计划将通过统计创新，先进的统计遗传学，药物滥用的流行病学和神经科学的新课程进一步开发，以促进NIDA使命的关键组成部分。研究教育计划包括博士前和博士后组成部分。博士前的参与者攻读精神病，行为和统计遗传学，人与分子遗传学，生物统计学或计算机科学的学位。该组成部分旨在招募潜在的未来研究者，以研究集中于SUAD的统计遗传学。目的是创建一系列的博士学位毕业生，这些毕业生已接触并开始在该领域发表研究。博士后成分认识到，许多有前途的研究人员已经对SUAD的统计遗传学进行了培训。这种灵活的2 - 3年后培训成分将年轻的研究人员引导到这一研究领域，并为他们提供综合培训，使他们能够从事SUAD统计遗传学的职业。研究教育适用于接受数学，统计学，生物统计学，遗传学，心理学，计算机科学或药理学培训的人，以及完成了对MD学位的临床要求的人。博士后成分旨在教育独立的研究人员，他们为识别和表征SUAD的遗传和环境决定因素，其发展，预防和治疗而做出贡献。因此，我们：i）提供并仔细监视具有广泛研究机会的多学科综合研究培训计划； ii）满足SUAD新兴研究领域培训的需求； iii）为来自不同学术和种族背景的研究人员提供正规教育和强化指导； iv）提供了一种专业的课程，该课程将我们机构的SUAD研究中的优势与方法论创新的培训相结合； v）通过教授讲习班并使用网络广播，播客和脚本库来维护网站，将课程材料，开发的软件，用户指南和示例脚本传播给更广泛的社区。