PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Like many psychiatric disorders, the research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to date has been overwhelmingly performed on participants of European Ancestry. For example, the latest genome-wide association study on OCD is about to be published, but unfortunately >95% of the OCD cases studied are entirely European. Thankfully, NIMH has recently funded a study that will begin to increase diversity in OCD research, the Latin American Trans-ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO). In addition, OCD researchers themselves have had a strong Eurocentric bias. One way to promote the inclusion of under-represented minority (URM) trainees in OCD research is to help them network with other Latin American investigators studying OCD as well as established investigators from outside Latin America. The LATINO project represents an opportunity to facilitate this networking. To this end, the LATINO project has teamed up with the non-profit organization Asociación Latinoamericana de Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo (ALTOC) to host an annual meeting on OCD in Latin America. The first two meetings in 2022 and 2023 were transformative for many attendees, but unfortunately, no funds existed for URM trainees to attend the meeting. This R13 proposal is designed to provide travel awards for URM students, postdocs, and junior faculty to attend this annual meeting. Specifically, we request funding for 10 travel awards per year over the next 4 years. We also request funds for professional, on- site translation services to facilitate knowledge exchange. Each conference will also feature formal career development and mentoring sessions to help travel awardees reach their full potential. Ultimately, our goal is to foster the next generation of Latinx OCD researchers. We will follow the NIH Interest in Diversity statement and consider all underrepresented populations in the U.S. biomedical research enterprise. We will use the categories listed in the NIH Interest in Diversity statement to define underrepresented populations. In addition to applicants of Latin American ancestry, this will extend the opportunity to, for example, Black, American Indian, individuals with disabilities, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.