# Behavioral Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $196,208

## Abstract

Project Summary –Behavioral Core
 Center laboratories are focused on identifying cell signaling pathways that mediate or regulate
cocaine's reinforcing properties. Accordingly, the Behavioral Core will be an integral component of the Center
that will enable Center investigators to evaluate the impact of manipulating these cell signaling pathways on
cocaine's reinforcing properties. Although it is generally agreed that self-administration assays are the best
approach to evaluating the reinforcing properties of drugs of abuse, Johns Hopkins does not have facilities
needed to conduct these key assays. Accordingly, an essential goal of the proposed Center is to establish and
run a Behavioral Core that will provide the training and facilities needed to conduct these critical behavioral
studies.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9932392
- **Project number:** 5P50DA044123-03
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Mikhail V Pletnikov
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $196,208
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9932392

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9932392, Behavioral Core (5P50DA044123-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9932392. Licensed CC0.

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