Basic Science Training Program in Drug Abuse
Institutional National Research Service Award
Funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse
T32-DA7290
The objective of the Basic Science Training Program in Drug Abuse is the training of predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows in a broad range of biological research methods relevant to drug abuse and addiction. The training program fills an important need by increasing the number of basic science researchers in the field of drug abuse. A major strength of the training program is the multidisciplinary and proven basic research records of its training facility. The basic research is aimed at delineating the neurobiological mechanisms underlying drug addiction, with a purposeful endpoint being the development of new treatments for drug addiction that are designed to alter these neurobiological mechanisms. Our training program benefits greatly from the depth and breadth of the faculty’s commitment to drug abuse research. There are active research programs, with strong grant support, at the molecular, biochemical, cellular, neuropharmacological, and behavioral levels in drug abuse with a primary focus on cocaine, and opiates. Other important strengths are the integration of the basic science training program with a well-established clinical program in drug abuse and the unique opportunity for the preclinical investigators to couple their work to direct clinical trials.
The existence of a training program in biological psychiatry means that the drug abuse fellows are in a rich basic research environment with fellow trainees in broad areas of neuroscience. This proximity, along with several combined seminar activities, also has the added benefit of exposing a much larger number of trainees overall to drug abuse research. The existence of a clinical training program in drug abuse facilitates one of the central goals of the training program: to offer a unique opportunity for integrating basic research within a clinical context. In this model, the basic research is driven by identified clinical needs, with basic research findings then applied rapidly to ongoing clinical research programs and trials. Finally, drug abuse trainees benefit enormously from the outstanding basic molecular and cell biology training programs at UT Southwestern, which helps build our drug abuse research on the strongest molecular and cellular foundations.
Eric Nestler is the Principal Investigator and Coordinator of this training program.
Core Training Faculty include:
Bibb, James
Cooper, Don
Cowan, Christopher
Eisch, Amelia
Elmquist, Joel
Goldberg, Matthew
Greene, Robert
Johnson, Jane
Kishi, Toshiro
McClung, Colleen
McKnight, Steve
Monteggia, Lisa
Nestler, Eric
Olson, Eric
Parada, Luis
Pieper, Andrew
Powell, Craig
Rothenfluh, Adrian
Self, David
Sudhof, Thomas
Tamminga, Carol
Yanagisawa, Masashi
The following is a list of some of the fellows supported by this grant to date:
Able, Jessica - Predoctoral
Alibhai, Imran - Predoctoral
Atkins, Josh - Predoctoral
Baccei, Mark - Predoctoral
Bachtell, Ryan - Postdoctoral
Bartley, Aundrea - Predoctoral
Bolanos, Carlos - Postdoctoral
Boundy, Virginia - Postdoctoral
Brunzell, Darlene - Postdoctoral
Calderone, Barbara - Postdoctoral
Carle, Tiffany - Predoctoral
Carlezon, William - Postdoctoral
Charlton, Maura - Postdoctoral
Chen, Zheng (Jake) - Postdoctoral
Collisson, Tandi - Predoctoral
DeCarolis, Nathan - Predoctoral
Dewey, Colleen - Predoctoral
DiLeone, Ralph - Postdoctoral
Edwards, Scott - Predoctoral
Eisch, Amelia - Postdoctoral
Falcon, Edgardo - Predoctoral
Fisher, Stephanie - Postdoctoral
Fowler, Melissa - Predoctoral
Gahn, Laura - Postdoctoral
Graham, Danielle - Postdoctoral
Grandpre, Tadzia - Predoctoral
Harburg, Gwyndolen - Predoctoral
Harris, Herbert - Postdoctoral
Hawasli, Ammar - Predoctoral
Hoang, Chau - Postdoctoral
Hoffman, Ginger - Predoctoral
Horger, Brian - Postdoctoral
Hung, Chou - Predoctoral
Khatami, Sherri - Predoctoral
Lander, Cindy - Predoctoral
Larson, Erin Beth - Postdoctoral
Luikhart, Bryan - Predoctoral
Mandyam, Chitra - Postdoctoral
McClung, Colleen - Postdoctoral
Meloni, Ed - Predoctoral
Messer, Chad - Predoctoral
Meyer, Doug - Postdoctoral
Morrow, Brett - Postdoctoral
Ni, Yan - Postdoctoral
Numan, Suzanne - Postdoctoral
Olson, Valerie - Predoctoral
Osterweil, Emily - Predoctoral
Ostrogonacz, Michele - Predoctoral
Perez, Jennifer - Predoctoral
Pieper, Andrew - Postdoctoral
Perrotti, Linda - Postdoctoral
Renthal, William - Predoctoral
Ronan, Patrick - Postdoctoral
Russo, Scott - Postdoctoral
Schad, Christina - Postdoctoral
Schmidt, Eric - Predoctoral
Sheehan, Teige - Postdoctoral
Simmons, Diana - Predoctoral
Stutzman, Grace - Postdoctoral
Tan, Pingshang - Postdoctoral
Townsend, Matthew - Predoctoral
Walker, John - Postdoctoral
Zachariou, Venetia - Postdoctoral
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-Predoctoral, postdoctoral, and summer student positions available.
