# Postdoctoral Training Program in Alcohol Studies

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · 2024 · $268,993

## Abstract

Postdoctoral Training Program in Alcohol Studies
This renewal application is for five years of continued support of the Postdoctoral Training Program in Alcohol
Studies at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (UConn Health). The program was established in
1980 and evolves with this renewal with transitions and additions among training faculty and new resources to
meet the needs of the next generation of scientists committed to understanding and reducing harms from
alcohol use and related consequences. To accomplish this, this program takes a collaborative,
interdisciplinary, and cross-campus (UConn Health, University of Connecticut (UConn-Storrs)) approach with
faculty representing numerous departments including psychiatry, computer science and engineering,
behavioral sciences and community health, medicine, and public health sciences. Our program continues to be
focused on alcohol. It also recognizes that alcohol use, intervention and treatment often occur in the context of
other substance use and comorbidities, and program faculty have substantial expertise in these areas.
Moreover, there is new attention to training opportunities in: mentoring, social determinants of health and
health disparities; data science; mobile technologies; and social media research. Further, while training faculty
have considerable experience in mentoring, supplemental training in best practices in mentoring and
contemporary issues is planned, for faculty and trainees. Throughout, an Executive Advisory Committee
composed of internal and external members will contribute to program oversight and evaluation. This program
provides three postdoctoral fellows with individualized and multimodal training for typically two and up to three
years. Fellows will select from four Core Research Areas in clinical and translational research: (1) Intervention,
Treatment and Recovery; (2) Etiology, Risk Factors and Comorbidities, (3) Health Services, Implementation
Science, and Translational research, and (4) Gut Microbiome, Liver Disease and Immunology. Our Addiction
Science and Principles of Clinical and Translational Research curriculums are examples of formal coursework.
Faculty collaborators and opportunities at external institutions will be available to extend training further.
Fellows will be assigned a primary and possibly a secondary mentor, based on similar research interests
across the core and elective areas. The primary mentor will provide instruction in methods, design, analysis,
and ethics of alcohol research within the trainee's core research area(s) and lead the trainee’s progress on
achieving program and personal professional milestones. Secondary mentors will do the same for their
research area. Expectations for trainees will be to: 1) produce at least two first authored publications per year
of training, 2) initiate and complete an independent or collaborative research project, 3) present research at
RSA and other scientific conferences, and 4) prepare a ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10849155
- **Project number:** 2T32AA007290-41
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT
- **Principal Investigator:** SHEILA MARIE ALESSI
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $268,993
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1980-07-01 → 2029-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10849155

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10849155, Postdoctoral Training Program in Alcohol Studies (2T32AA007290-41). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10849155. Licensed CC0.

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