# Presentation: 798572

## NIDA’s Research Training: State of the ProgramResearch Training Directors MeetingNovember 3, 2006NIDA’s Research Training Program  Update for:Training Directors November 3, 2006

## NIDA’s Research Training Mission

**The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) offers a strategic set of funding mechanisms to support the development of research scientists through various stages of their careers. These awards are designed to ensure that scientists of the very highest caliber will be available in adequate numbers and in the appropriate research areas and fields to meet the Nation’s drug abuse and addiction research needs. **

## NIDA Budget for FY 2006

**FY 2006 = $ 990 M**

**Notes:**
NIDA’s overall budget for NRSA training: 23 million ~2.3% of budget
38% success rate for Fs; 33% success rate for Ts

## NIH FY 2005 NRSA Training Funds (Fs and Ts)

**Funds As a Percent of IC Awards Budget (incl. AIDS)**

- NIH Average= 3.03%

**% of IC’s Awards Budget**

## NIH FY 2004 Training & Career Funds (Fs, Ts, Ks)

- Funds As a Percent of IC Awards Budget (incl. AIDS)

**% of IC’s Awards Budget**

## Research Training Committee

**OSPC**
**Susan Weiss, Ph.D.**
**Suman King, Ph.D.**
**Genevieve deAlmeida-Morris, Ph.D.**
**Mimi Ghim, Ph.D.**
**DBNBR**
**Charles Sharp, Ph.D.**
**Beth Babecki, M.A.**
**Diane Lawrence, Ph.D**.
**OEA**
**Mark Swieter, Ph.D.**
**Eliane Lazar-Wesley, Ph.D.**
**CCTN**
**Harold Perl, Ph.D.**
**Quandra Scudder**
**BUDGET**
**Larry Raigrodski**

**DESPR**
**Belinda Sims, Ph.D.**
**William Bukoski, Ph.D.**
**Kathy Etz, Ph.D.**
**DPMCDA**
**Jamie Biswas, Ph.D.**
**Jane Acri, Ph.D.**
**DCNBR**
**Debbie Grossman, M.A.**
**Laurence Stanford, Ph.D.**
**Special Populations**
**Lula Beatty, Ph.D.**
**Pamela Goodlow**
**AIDS Research Program**
**Lynda Erinoff, Ph.D., J.D.**
**GMB**
**Catherine Mills**

## NIDA RTC Mission

**Make Funding Recommendations on NRSA Training Grants and Fellowships**
**Serve as Second Level of Review (“Council”) for NRSA Fellowships**
**Advise Director on Policy Issues Related to Research Training (NRSA and K awards)**

## Research Training Program Invigorated in mid 1990s with goals to:

**Develop and maintain diverse training program**
**Stimulate and support clinical research training**
**Grow the program to levels comparable to other ICs**
**Develop outreach activities to recruit trainees/mentors, e.g., grant writing workshops; **
**	****T-32 director meetings; K-awardee meeting**

## NIDA Trainees and FellowsFiscal Years 1986 - 2006

**Number of Trainees and Fellows**

-  **Fiscal Year**

## Mentored K Career Development AwardsFY 1992-2006

**Number Awarded**

## NRSA Institutional Research Training Sites

**NRSA Institutional Research Training Sites**
**(2006)**

**ME**

- 11/06

**Roadmap **
**(N = 6)**

- 1

- 2

- Puerto Rico ATTC

**MA**

**RI**

**TX**

**UT**

**NV**

**CA**

**AZ**

**NM**

**LA**

**OR**

**WA**

**ND**

**MS**

**AR**

**OK**

**FL**

**MT**

**SD**

**NE**

**MO**

**KS**

**ID**

**WY**

**CO**

**TN**

**SC**

**GA**

**IA**

**AL**

**MN**

**NC**

**WI**

**IN**

**IL**

**PA**

**KY**

**MI**

**VA**

**WV**

**NY**

**OH**

**CT**

**NH**

**VT**

**NJ**

**MD**

**DE**

**DC**

- 3

- 5

- 7

**NIDA T32 (N = 42)**

## NIDA NRSA Training Dollars by Division

**Total = $22.9 Million**

**Notes:**
NIDA’s overall budget for NRSA training: 23 million ~2.3% of budget
38% success rate for Fs; 33% success rate for Ts

## How Have the Success Rates Changed Over Time for Institutional and Individual NRSA Training Awards?

## Number of Institutional Training Grants Received vs. Awarded (FY 2000-2006)

**Roadmap**

**Blueprint**

- Interdisciplinary Training
- RFAs: 2006

## Number of Fellowships Received vs. Awarded(FY 2000-2006)

**Number of Applicants**

## Number of Pre-Doctoral Fellowships Received vs. Awarded (FY 2000-2006) 

**Number of Applicants**

## Number of Post-Doctoral Fellowships Received vs. Funded (FY 2000-2006) 

**Number of Applicants**

## Current Research Training Goals and Challenges

**Continue NRSA Programs at Current Levels Despite Increasing Costs**
**Encourage Clinical and Patient-oriented Research Training**
**Ensure Balanced Training Portfolio (AIDS, Health Services Research)**
**Enhance Training of Minority/Diversity Researchers**
**Support Interdisciplinary Training**
**Creatively use other mechanisms to support young scientists (B/I Start, Ks, dissertation grants)**
**Optimize Investment through Program Evaluation**

## Issues the RTC is Grappling With Regarding Institutional Training Programs

**New vs. Established programs**
**Size of programs: Optimal use of slots/funds**
**Pre- vs. Post-doc training **
**How well are trainees being transitioned to independence?**
**Tracking and Evaluation—How can we improve data collection; capture different career paths?**

## Issues the RTC is Grappling With Regarding Institutional Training Programs (continued)

**Investing in Fs vs. Ts—What are the data?**
**Increasing diversity of training programs: Interdisciplinary, clinical, health services research, AIDS**
**Overlap—Few schools with many Ts**
**Mentoring—How should this be evaluated? **

##  Best Practices Forums––Issues for Participant Feedback

**What Makes a Successful Training Program?**
**Foster Independence--Research Careers**
**Size of programs: optimal use of slots/funds**
**Leverage University resources**
**Quality Mentoring**
**Recruitment of diverse populations**
**Components of Successful Program Evaluation and Tracking**
**How can we improve data collection; capture different career paths?**

##  Best Practices Forums––Issues for Participant Feedback

**Targeting New Program Areas for Enhanced Training Development**
**Increasing diversity of training programs: Interdisciplinary, clinical, health services research, AIDS**
**Encouraging Good Mentorship: What Can you Do?**
**How should this be evaluated? **
**How well are trainees being transitioned to independence?**

## NIH Loan Repayment Programs are a vital component of our nation's efforts to attract health professionals to careers in research

**	****Applicant:****    Commit to perform research for 2 years; **
**	****NIH:****     Repays up to $35,000 per year of qualifying****	****            educational debt and the resulting taxes.  **

**NIH Loan Repayment Programs**** are a ****vital component of our nation's efforts ****to attract health professionals to careers ****in research**

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**Goal:   To increase our nation’s stock ****	****of clinical research scientists.**

## LRPs and Qualifying Research

_**Clinical Research**_
- 	**Patient-oriented clinical research conducted with human subjects, or research on the causes and consequences of disease in human populations involving material of human origin (such as tissue specimens and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator or colleague directly interacts with human subjects in an outpatient or inpatient setting to clarify a problem in human physiology, pathophysiology or disease, or epidemiologic or behavioral studies, outcomes research or health services research, or developing new technologies, therapeutic interventions, or clinical trials.**
_**Pediatric Research**_
- 	**Research that is directly related to diseases, disorders, and other conditions in children**.

## NIDA Extramural Loan Repayment Program FY2002-2005

**NIDA Extramural Loan Repayment Program FY2002-2005**

**Clinical**

**Pediatric**

**Number of Applications vs. Awards**

## NIDA Extramural Loan Repayment Programs

**New Applications vs. Renewals (FY06)**

**New Applications**

**Renewals**

**61% Success Rate**

**72% Success Rate**

**Number of Applications**

## OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: 

- 	Deadline for Applications:   December 1, 2006
- 	Website:  www.lrp.nih.gov