Project Summary Creating and maintaining a community of peers for SUD researchers is key to helping them advance the inception of new products that deliver solutions for substance use disorders. To ignite SUD researcher engagement via the online community tools, we must nurture a network of human connections that exist between former and future program participants, industry experts, speakers, coaches, and guests of the program to share research ideas and support each other in the biomedical product development journey. Additional activities proposed to nurture the Community of Peers continuously and effectively include outreach during the period when the program is inactive (i.e. most of the year) and will include co-designing post-program content to keep SUD researchers engaged with the curriculum, proactive previous cohort involvement with the outreach, recruitment, curriculum delivery to the next cohorts, creation of areas of focus around which cohorts can self-organize, and organization and on-going delivery of live connections to top industry experts and peers with management and engineering expertise. By facilitating a range of activities to curate the budding relationships in this ecosystem, we create more opportunities for self-driven interactions. Empirical evidence for self- driven interactions will be measured and fed back into the activities design for subsequent years.