The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is pleased to announce the award of 13 grants to fund the continuation of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN). The CTN provides a means by which treatment providers, researchers, and community-based service providers develop, validate, and deliver new treatment options to patients. The grants will support studies on behavioral and pharmacological therapeutic interventions in rigorous, multi-site clinical trials to determine their effectiveness across a broad range of community-based treatment settings and diversified patient populations. The research findings will be shared with physicians, clinicians, providers and patients in order to help bridge the gap between research findings and treatment.
The CTN framework consists of 13 Nodes, a Clinical Coordinating Center, and a Data and Statistics Center. This framework links a variety of treatment providers and patient populations nationwide, allowing for rapid testing of promising science-based therapies and the subsequent delivery of these treatments to patients in a variety of treatment settings.
For more information, contact the NIDA press office at media@nida.nih.gov or 301-443-6245.
Awardees are listed below:
- Florida Node Alliance - UG1 DA013720
University of Miami - José Szapocznik, PhD
Columbia University - Lisa Metsch, PhD - Greater New York Node - UG1 DA013035
New York University School of Medicine - John Rotrosen, MD
New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia - Edward Nunes, Jr, MD - Health Systems Node - UG1 DA040314
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute - Cynthia Campbell, PhD, MPH
University of California, San Francisco - Constance Weisner, DrPH, MSW
Group Health Research Institute - Katharine Bradley, MD, MPH - Mid-Atlantic Node - UG1 DA013034
The Johns Hopkins University - Maxine Stitzer, PhD
Friends Research Institute - Robert Schwartz, MD - Mid-Southern Node - UG1 DA040317
Duke University - Li-Tzy Wu, ScD, RN, MA and Rowena Dolor, MD, MHS - New England Node - UG1 DA015831
McLean Hospital - Harvard Medical School - Roger Weiss, MD
Yale University - Kathleen Carroll, PhD - Northeast Node - UG1 DA015831
Dartmouth College - Lisa Marsch, PhD - Northstar Node - UG1 DA040316
The Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation - Gavin Bart, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota - Anne Joseph, MD, MPH - Ohio Valley Node - UG1 DA013732
University of Cincinnati - Theresa Winhusen, PhD - Pacific Northwest Node - UG1 DA013714
University of Washington - Dennis Donovan, PhD - Southern Consortium Node - UG1 DA013727
Medical University of South Carolina - Kathleen Brady, MD, PhD and Matthew Carpenter, PhD - Texas Node - UG1 DA020024
The University of Texas SW Med Center - Madhukar Trivedi, MD - Western States Node - UG1 DA015815
University of California, San Francisco - James Sorensen, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University - Dennis McCarty, PhD