# Development of Psychopathology, Psychobiology, & Behavior

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2023 · $397,383

## Abstract

Understanding development is critical for understanding psychopathology, particularly for identifying the
precursors and early manifestations of illness. This postdoctoral training program, entering its 43rd year,
focuses on training scientists in areas related to translational developmental neuroscience. The Developmental
Psychobiology Research Group (DPRG) is a multi-specialty, multi-departmental, multi-institutional group of
collaborative scientists from throughout the Denver metropolitan region. The DPRG has administered this T32
training program since its inception over 40 years ago and is requesting an additional five years of funding with
six trainees per year for its 2-3 year postdoctoral training program. The program recruits physicians (primarily
child psychiatrists) who will generally enter the program with five to seven years of postdoctoral experience
and individuals with a PhD, who will generally enter the program with zero to four years of postdoctoral
training. Mentoring faculty are chosen based on research accomplishment, a history of successful research
collaborations, and a history of successful research mentoring. Since the last renewal, we have also added
secondary mentors, to expand expertise, involve junior faculty, and provide additional collaborative
opportunities. The program includes both core and individualized curricular components. Core curricular
components includes an ongoing work-in-progress seminar with both faculty and trainee involvement, a writing
group, yearly retreats, career development seminars, and training related to the responsible conduct of
research and methods to enhance reproducibility and rigor. The individualized curricular components include
both class work and direct project experience, including dissemination, mentored by a mentorship team.
Ongoing empirically-based review of the program demonstrates both a high level of success of this program’s
graduates as well as the program’s curricular flexibility in responding to the results of those reviews. Evaluation
of the program is ongoing. Strengths of the program include the quality of the applicants, a collaborative group
of outstanding faculty, interaction of trainees from a variety of disciplines, and a strong evaluation process. The
scientists trained by this program become leaders in identifying the child and adolescent precursors to mental
illness, and in developing novel strategies for treatment and prevention.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10631925
- **Project number:** 5T32MH015442-45
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** JASON R TREGELLAS
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $397,383
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1978-07-01 → 2027-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10631925

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10631925, Development of Psychopathology, Psychobiology, & Behavior (5T32MH015442-45). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10631925. Licensed CC0.

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