Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA)

代表性不足的成瘾研究中心 (CURA)

• 批准号: 10762619
• 负责人: Gonzalo E. Torres
• 金额: $ 26.73万
• 依托单位: LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10762619
• 关键词: Center; Underrepresented; Research; Addiction; CURA

ABSTRACT Despite many years of discussion, research, and efforts to promote change, a great disparity remains between the presence of African American, Hispanic, Native American, People with Disabilities, and other underrepresented minority (URM) faculty at US research universities and their representation in the US population. This reality is no less true in the neurosciences than in other disciplines. Moreover, URMs who do achieve faculty status appear to achieve traditional measures of success at a lower rate than do their majority counterparts. Although data on publications and funding rates appear to be lacking, there is a striking absence of URMs in visible positions of prominence as full professors or chairs at universities and as symposia speakers, journal editors, or societal officers. We believe that these two problems are related – that if those URMs who are faculty become more successful in regard to those measures, this in turn will stimulate an influx of other URMs into faculty ranks. Our evaluation of available programs in the US indicates that there are limited opportunities to adequately assist early career URM faculty in overcoming these difficulties, and it is this problem that we seek to address through the Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA) to promote the advancement of junior faculty members in drug addiction research at research universities. Defining success for such faculty in terms of quality and quantity of manuscripts, grants submitted, and funded, visibility at the national level, mentoring of others by the participants, and promotion, we propose to establish a program based on the following hypothesis: The success of early career URM faculty in drug addiction research can be increased substantially by an intensive individualized educational program focused on (1) and individualized career development plan and the identification of a team of relevant mentors (2) strong instruction in professional skills and the responsible conduct of research (RCR), (3) individualized and frequent mentoring by senior established faculty (4) development of an expanded network and peer-mentoring, and (5) the promotion and enhancement of the career of URM faculty at their own institutions. To test this hypothesis, we will develop the CURA program to advance the career of URM faculty. We will recruit 10 early career URM faculty in drug addiction research each year for five years who have great promise for success. We will then develop career development programs for each participant and together the participant and mentoring team will develop a career development plan. To facilitate that plan we will establish a one-year educational program consisting of (a) workshops, (b) strong mentoring, (c) attendance at professional scientific meetings, (d) assistance in the expansion of their network, and (e) mechanisms to promote communication and peer-mentoring among the participants. The impact of our efforts will be evaluated and the results disseminated at meetings and in publications. We believe that this approach will have a significant impact on the success of early career URM faculty in the neurosciences and will serve as a model for programs in other areas of academia.

抽象的 尽管讨论了多年，研究和促进变革的努力，但之间仍然存在很大的差距 非裔美国人，西班牙裔，美国原住民，残疾人和其他 美国研究型大学的代表性不足少数民族（URM）及其在美国的代表 人口。在神经科学中，这种现实与其他学科同样是真实的。而且，URMS的人 达到教师身份似乎以低于其多数的速度实现了传统的成功措施 同行。尽管有关出版物和资金率的数据似乎缺乏，但仍有惊人的缺席 URM在明显的地位，作为大学的全部教授或主席，作为座谈会的演讲者， 期刊编辑或社会官员。我们认为这两个问题是相关的 - 如果那些是 在这些措施方面，教师变得更加成功，这反过来将刺激其他URM的影响 进入教师等级。我们对美国可用计划的评估表明机会有限 为了充分协助早期职业URM教师克服这些困难，我们正在寻找这个问题 通过成瘾中代表性不足的研究中心（CURA）来促进进步 研究型大学的药物成瘾研究的初级教职员工。为这种教师定义成功 就手稿的质量和数量而言，在国家一级提交和资助的赠款， 参与者和晋升对他人的指导，我们建议根据以下内容建立一个计划 假设：早期职业学院在药物成瘾研究中的成功可以大大增加 通过一个重大的个性化教育计划，重点是（1）和个性化的职业发展计划 并确定相关导师团队（2）专业技能和负责任的强大指导 研究的进行（RCR），（3）高级成立教师的个性化和经常进行心理（4） 开发扩展的网络和同行吸引力，以及（5）职业的促进和增强 他们自己机构的Urm教师。为了检验这一假设，我们将开发Cura计划以提高 URM教师的职业。我们将每年在吸毒研究中招募10个早期的URM教师 五年对成功有很大的希望。然后，我们将为每个制定职业发展计划 参与者以及参与者和心理团队将制定职业发展计划。促进 该计划我们将建立一个为期一年的教育计划，该计划包括（a）研讨会，（b）强烈的心理，（c） 参加专业科学会议，（d）在扩展其网络方面的协助以及（e） 促进参与者之间沟通和同伴的机制。我们努力的影响 将进行评估，并在会议和出版物中传播结果。我们相信这种方法 将对神经科学中早期职业学院的成功产生重大影响，并将作为 在学术界其他领域的计划的模型。