Training Opportunities
T32 UCLA Training Program in Translational Neuroscience of Drug Addiction
The UCLA Translational Neuroscience of Drug Addiction (TNDA) is set forth to link several successful UCLA research centers by establishing a unified training program. It provides trainees with an integrative knowledge base needed to plan and conduct bidirectional translational studies. These will include cutting-edge technical laboratory methods, computational approaches in data evaluation, and issues related to ethical treatment of human subjects. As successful researchers must also become adept at identifying sources of research funding and at preparing fundable applications that can further their independent investigation, we will provide didactic training and mentoring in these important areas, with emphasis on skills in scientific writing and presentation to enhance dissemination of research findings. TNDA trainees will usually have a primary research project in a specific mentor’s laboratory, but will gain exposure to other areas of drug abuse research through laboratory rotations, common core training elements as well as by formal and informal interaction among key faculty and TNDA leadership. (more details)
P20 Training Program in Translational Research on Drug Abuse
The NIDA P20 Center for Translational Research on Addiction (CTRA) (E. London, Ph.D., PI) was funded in late 2006 and is committed to providing an outstanding venue for training junior investigators in the clinical and pre-clinical neurobiology of drug abuse with specific emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches, through engagement in the Center’s research projects, and by participating in the Center’s new Training Program in Translational Research on Drug Abuse, which will actively support these engagements. (more details)
Courses
- Translational Approach to Studying the Neurobiological Basis of Drug Addiction (download syllabus)
- Drugs of Abuse: From Neurobiology to Policy and Education
- Seminars in Addiction Psychiatry (see course listing online: www.uclaisap.org/addclinic/html/course.html)
- Other courses will be selected from the wide offerings of the School of Medicine and Graduate Division, to complement the didactic background of individual applicants on a case-by-case basis. For a full listing of courses available through the center and the Semel Institute, visit www.semel.ucla.edu/education/courses
