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7 Resources Needed for Young Investigators
7 Resources Needed for Young Investigators
Pages 115-138
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Those who seek academic careers usually apply for positions where the salary is at least partly secure, but their ability to conduct research is often dependent on research funding that has been obtained by a colleague (such as a senior researcher in charge of the postdoctoral training program) or funding that they must obtain by writing or helping to write a successful research grant application.
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T32 (National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training GrantJ The grant provides up to 5 years of renewable support to institutions for various levels of training, including predoctoral research training, postdoctoral research training, clinical research training, and short-term research training for health professional students. T35 (National Research Service Award Short-Term Institutional Research Training GrantJ- The grant provides support to institutions offering research training opportunities to individuals or students during off-quarters or sum
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K08 (Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award) The 3- to 5-year award supports the development of outstanding clinician research scientists through a period of supervised research experience that may integrate didactic studies with laboratory or clinically based research.
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To assess the accuracy of these perceptions, the committee examined trends in overall funding, the number of applications and awards, and application success rates for the various mechanisms. Comparative data across several institutes are shown to provide a useful context for understanding the career development issues involved in addiction research.
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Although there have been increases in total budgets in actual dollars, when inflation is taken into consideration the growth has been more limited, except for NCI and NIDA.' Since FY 1990, research grant budgets have increased between 18 percent to 30 percent, with NIDA increasing by 24 percent and NIAAA by 21 percent. A1though training budgets show a different trend-in the direction of convergence for NIDA and NIAAA with the other three institutes both NIDA's and lit is important to note that many graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are also supported on research grants.
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Vulnerable Junctures and Lack of Research Training Investigators at early stages of their research careers frequently progress from an extended period of postdoctoral research training support to the First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) award (i.e., R29 support)
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, investigators at the workshop reported finding it increasingly difficult to obtain an RO1 award. The data, although partially supporting their concerns in terms of overall success rates, do not support the notion that success rates for drug abuse research differ greatly from general NIH-wide success rates.
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. TABLE 7.4 NIAAA Research Training Funding as a Percentage of Total Extramural Research Fur~d~ng (millions of dollars)
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However, that figure is not comparable with the figures in The Foundation Center's 1989 report Alcohol and Drug Abuse Funding: An Analysis of Foundation Grants, 1983-1987. The 1993-1994 report included all grants related to alcohol and drug abuse, including prevention programs and media projects, while the 1989 report focused solely on foundation support for basic, behavioral, and clinical research of alcoholism and drug abuse.
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Industry and private foundations should cooperate with universities to provide supplemental funds for career development and research support of young investigators, especially during transition periods between awards, or to provide partial salary support for clinical researchers; · Increases should be made in the percentage of NIDA and NLAAA extramural research funding spent on training programs to reach the NIH institute average (currently 5 percent to 6 percent) , funds for which should no' be redirected from the research budgets of these institutes; · Jointly sponsored programs (e.g., government, industry, private foundations, academia)
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Recent increases in stipends for NIH predoctoral researchers and junior postdoctoral researchers have brought such awards more in line with other federal and nonfederal programs; stipends rose from $8,800 to $10,008 per year for predoctoral researchers, and from $19,700 to $20,700 for those with at least 1 full year of postdoctoral experience (NIH, 1992, 1996b)
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To encourage excellence in clinical research on the problems of addiction, the committee recommends that: . The federal government should establish a debt deferral or forgiveness program for scientists conducting clinical research in drug addiction or treating persons with drug abuse in publicly funded settings; and · Federal funds should be made available from NIH, SAMSHA, HRSA, or AHCPR to provide training for primary care physicians (e.g., obstetricians, family physicians, and internists)
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to foster collaborative exchanges of information and research, such as the scientific breakthroughs that occur during drug development; · Universities with faculty engaged in addiction research should undertake a comprehensive review of the support and resources available for collaborative efforts within and outside the university, particularly those collaborative efforts which involve multiple disciplines; administrators should develop a plan to share resources and facilities both within and across institutions and specify criteria for access; Funding agencies, such as the government and private foundations, should focus on new integrative opportunities (e.g., drug addiction etiology and medications) through using the combined strengths of participating institutions, including government, industry, private foundations, multidisciplinary centers, and Academic Centers of Excellence; · NIH should review the composition of Initial Review Groups (IRGs)
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Rockville, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse)
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1996b. Institute and Center Research Training Budgets as a Percentage of Their Budgets for NIH Extramural Research and Development Grants, FY 1995.
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