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UNAIDS Honors Palestinian Substance Abuse Research Center for Efforts To Address HIV and Drug Use
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Mr. Hasan Aamoudi (left), chair, and Dr. Mohammed F. Al-Afifi, director of the Palestinian Substance Abuse Research Center, accept the UNAIDS Red Ribbon Award from Ms. Emily Blitz, International AIDS...
NIDA Symposium, Workshop, and IAS-NIDA Fellows Featured at AIDS 2010
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Two NIDA-supported meetings featured international drug abuse research during the XVIII International AIDS Conference, which was held July 18–23, in Vienna, Austria. Prevention and Treatment of HIV and AIDS Among...
IAS-NIDA Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in HIV and Drug Use
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IAS-NIDA Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in HIV and Drug Use also were announced during the International AIDS Conference, supporting 18 months of training for: Former NIDA INVEST Fellow Adhi Nurhidayat, Indonesia...
NIDA International Forum Focuses on Drug Policy, Research, and the Public Good
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Plenary session speakers at the 15th NIDA International Forum explored the ways drug abuse researchers and policymakers can develop evidence-based drug policies that include public health as a priority. Dr...
NIDA Presents International Program Awards of Excellence
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During the 2010 NIDA International Forum, Dr. Steven W. Gust, International Program Director, presented the 2010 Awards of Excellence to honor mentors, researchers, and binational collaborative teams whose efforts support...
Fogarty Center Revises FIRCA, ICOHRTA Programs
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LAST Deadline for FIRCA Basic Biomedical Research Awards : September 28, 2010 The Fogarty International Center (FIC) is evaluating and consolidating funding opportunities to respond to priorities set by the...
Antonello Bonci To Lead Intramural Research at NIDA
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University of California, San Francisco neuropsychopharmacologist Antonello Bonci, M.D., has been appointed the scientific director of the NIDA Intramural Research Program (IRP) in Baltimore.
Former Humphrey Fellow Named to Top University and Research Posts
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2010–2011 Humphrey Fellow Muzafar Razali received his doctoral degree from the University of Malaya in August 2010 and was appointed head of the Psychology and Counseling Department, Faculty of Education...
INVEST Fellow To Investigate Opioid Maintenance Treatment Adherence
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Perrine Roux, Pharm.D., Ph.D., French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), has been selected as a NIDA INVEST Drug Abuse Research Fellow. She will work with Sandra D...
Tanzania and U.S. Launch Medication-Assisted Therapy Program for Drug Users
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The governments of Tanzania and the United States have announced that the first medication- assisted therapy (MAT) program for drug users in sub-Saharan Africa will begin shortly at two sites...
SPR Honors NIDA International Program Director Steven Gust
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NIDA International Program Director Dr. Steven W. Gust The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) presented its 2010 International Collaborative Prevention Research Award to NIDA International Program Director Dr. Steven W...
SPR International Networking Forum Focuses on Outreach; Good Behavior Game Network Launched
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Building upon momentum from the previous year, more than 40 international scientists, policymakers, and community representatives participated in the 2010 International Networking Forum at SPR to share knowledge and information...
INVEST-CTN Fellow Focuses on Family Therapy
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INVEST-Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Fellow Mario Zapata, M.D., M.Sc., focused primarily on brief strategic family therapy and ended his fellowship year by submitting a grant application to fund a pilot...
USDISCA Team Builds HIV Prevention Effort for Young Russians
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Kenneth W. Griffin, Ph.D., M.P.H., Weill Cornell Medical College, and Irina Pervova, Ph.D., St. Petersburg State University (SPSU), used Dr. Griffin’s U.S. Distinguished International Scientist Collaboration Award (USDISCA) to conduct...
DISCA Team Examines PTSD and Substance Use Disorders
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Kathleen T. Brady, M.D., Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), will use her NIDA Distinguished International Scientist Collaboration Award (USDISCA) to extend her research collaboration with Maree Teesson, Ph.D...
NIDA-Funded Researcher Mixes Ethnography With Art Installation
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As part of his research into preventing HIV and hepatitis C infections among injection drug users, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Ph.D., National Development and Research Institutes, noticed that drug dealers in New...
New U.S. – Netherlands Funding Initiative Focuses on Improving Interventions
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NIDA has issued a funding announcement for Administrative Supplements to Support US – Netherlands Binational Collaborative Research on Drug Abuse, NOT-DA-10-018. NIDA will provide up to $300,000 to support up...
International Program Highlights Activities in Three New Publications
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New publications highlight the NIDA International Program mission, fellowship opportunities, and the NIDA Hubert H. Humphrey Drug Abuse Research Fellowships. A four-page brochure highlights the International Program’s mission and work...
Mentor Foundation Seeks Applications for Prevention Awards
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Nongovernment organizations working in the field of drug abuse prevention may apply for the Mentor International Prevention Awards 2010, to be presented by Her Majesty the Queen of Sweden on...
NIDA Joins Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) for Sub-Saharan Africa
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(RFA-TW-10-008; R24) NIDA has joined the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) administered by the Fogarty International Center and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Global AIDS Office to develop...
Fogarty Meeting Focuses on International Tobacco Research
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Participants at the 2010 meeting of the Fogarty International Center International Tobacco Research and Capacity Building Network shared experiences on project management, research and training collaborations between domestic and foreign...
U.S., Mexico Issue Joint Declaration on Demand Reduction
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The United States and Mexico have issued a joint declaration (PDF, 43.8KB) of cooperation on drug demand reduction efforts that underscores a commitment to reduce illicit drug consumption and the...
WHO/NIDA/CPDD Select International Traveling Fellows
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NIDA has joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) in selecting drug abuse scientists from China and Georgia as recipients of International...
NIDA Supports Experts Participating in International Meetings
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The NIDA International Program has supported researchers who participated in three recent scientific meetings: Paul Haber, M.D., Medical Director of the Drug Health Service at Sydney South West Area Health...
Former NIDA Humphrey Fellow Named ISAJE/WHO Young Scholar
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Monica S. Malta, Ph.D., a 2004–2005 NIDA Hubert H. Humphrey Drug Abuse Research Fellow from Brazil, has received the 2009 International Society of Addiction Journal Editors/ World Health Organization (ISAJE/WHO)...
Former NIDA Humphrey Fellow Receives Alumni Professional Development Grant
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The Institute of International Education awarded a Hubert H. Humphrey (HHH) Alumni Professional Development Grant that enabled former NIDA Humphrey Fellow Dr. Peter Kenneth Ndege, Kenya, to attend the International...
INVEST Fellow Validates Noninvasive Drug-Testing Methods
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INVEST Fellow Dr. Marta Concheiro Guisán, Spain, ended her successful drug abuse research fellowship having developed and validated two new, noninvasive methods to quantify the level of licit and illicit...
International Training Grant Program Receives U.S. Economic Stimulus Funds
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The Fogarty International Center intends to commit up to $2.7 million in Fiscal Year 2010 for 6 to10 awards to provide short-term support to U.S. universities and their partners to...
Fellowship Orientation Brings Researchers From 13 Nations to NIDA
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Participants in the NIDA Fellowship Orientation included (sitting, from left): Hamida Ebadi (JHU/Afghanistan), Dale Weiss (NIDA), Thanda Kin (VCU/Burma), Rawnak Aqrawi (VCU/Iraq), and Chinyere Okonkwo (VCU/Nigeria). Standing, middle row: Mario...
NIDA Offers Tuition Waiver to Dutch Addiction Program Summer Institute
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Application Deadline: April 15, 2010 The NIDA International Program will provide one tuition waiver to a U.S. participant, and the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) will provide...
Former NIDA Humphrey Fellow Directs Brazilian Integrated Prevention and Treatment Project
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The Brazilian Ministry of Justice and the Brazilian Secretariat for Drug and Alcohol Policies has awarded a large grant to the Center for Drug and Alcohol Research at the Federal...
Medication Development Researcher Phil Skolnick Leads NIDA Drug Discovery Efforts
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Phil Skolnick, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Hon.), a leader in the worlds of corporate and academic drug research, has been appointed director of the NIDA Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical Consequences of...
DISCA and USDISCA Awards Support Research Collaborations
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Senior drug abuse researchers from Taiwan and the United States have been named Distinguished International Scientists, receiving support from the NIDA International Program to advance their collaborations with colleagues in...
NIDA Selects Three INVEST-CTN Fellows
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NIDA has selected researchers from Australia, Chile, and India as INVEST-Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Fellows for 2010–2011: Suzanne Nielsen, Ph.D., BPharm, senior research fellow and senior pharmacist at Turning Point...
Reflections on the Humphrey Fellows’ Experience at Johns Hopkins
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Alexandra Hill and Patricia Schmid, representing the 2005–2006 Humphrey Fellows All of us -- each in our own way –have traveled from afar to be here today. When we first...
NIDA Launches Latin American Initiative
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Acting on its mission to work with neighboring countries in joint efforts to address drug addiction and its consequences, NIDA has launched a Latin American Initiative designed to increase training...
Supplement to Drug and Alcohol Dependence Focuses on Links Between Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS
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NIDA and the editors of Drug and Alcohol Dependence have published a peer-reviewed journal supplement, Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS: International Research Lessons and Imperatives, to provide an international perspective on...
Humphrey Fellows Tour IRP
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The 2005-2006 Hubert H. Humphrey Drug Abuse Research Fellows toured the NIDA Intramural Research Program (IRP) in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 4, 2005. The following IRP staff members met with...
NIDA, Fogarty Sponsor International Effort to Build Inhalant Research Agenda
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The NIDA International Program and the Fogarty International Center, together with the Canadian Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health and the Mexican Consejo Nacional Contra Las Addicciones (CONADIC), cosponsored the meeting...
2005 Distinguished International Scientists Complete Their Research Visits
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The competitive Distinguished International Scientists Collaboration Awards ( DISCA) provide support to senior scientists during research exchange visits of 1 to 3 months so that applicants and their partners can...
NIDA Poster Session at SfN Highlights Young International Neuroscience Researchers
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NIDA organized an Early Career Investigators Poster Session on Friday, November 11, as part of NIDA’s mini-convention on Frontiers in Addiction Research at the Society for Neuroscience Research meeting in...
NIDA Co-Sponsors 3-Day Meeting on Service Integration in Istanbul, Turkey September 5–7, 2005
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A group of 58 professionals from 23 countries came together in the historic Sultanamet section of Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss the benefits and challenges of integrating substance abuse services into...
NIDA Hosts Foresight Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs Project
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Are improved treatments for addiction, new treatments for disorders like schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, and cognition enhancers in our future? Representatives from Fore sight, the British government’s science-based think...
INVEST, Humphrey Fellows Meet NIDA Officials and Tour NIH
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NIDA hosted an orientation on Friday, October 28, 2005, for the 2005-2006 NIDA INVEST and Hubert H. Humphrey Drug Abuse Research Fellows. The group met with Ms. Dale Weiss, NIDA...
NIDA Symposium at APA Highlights U.S. – Netherlands Collaboration
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Number 5, August 2005 Drs. Eve Reider and Beverly A. Pringle, NIDA Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, co-chaired a symposium August 20, 2005, during the American Psychiatric Association...
NIDA International Forum Draws an Accomplished Crowd
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More than 300 registrants from 51 nations participated in the NIDA International Forum June 17-20. Participants were enthusiastic about the workshops, plenary sessions, and international research poster session. A complete...
Two Scientists Named 2005 WHO/NIDA/CPDD International Traveling Fellows
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Former NIDA INVEST Fellow Dr. Raka Jain, India, and Dr. Paulo Cunha, Brazil, have been selected as the 2005 WHO/NIDA/CPDD International Traveling Fellows. The fellowships are co-sponsored by NIDA, the...
DISCA-Supported Research Supports Fluoxetine as Pharmacotherapy for Methamphetamine; DISCA Team Awarded Additional Binational Funding
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Preliminary results from research conducted under the NIDA Distinguished International Scientist Collaboration Awards (DISCA) suggest that fluoxetine has therapeutic effects on methamphetamine self-administration. The researchers, NIDA 2004 Distinguished International Scientist...
NIDA Helps Fund First fMRI in Africa
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NIDA and the University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa, have installed the continent’s first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) system. The installation was part of an ongoing collaboration between Dr...
NIDA International Program Announces FY 2004 Administrative Supplement Awards
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NIDA has awarded nearly $1.5 million for research through its 2004 Administrative Supplement Program to Support International Collaborative Research on Drug Abuse (NOT-DA-04-004). The International Supplements were awarded to 16...