# Training Program in Neuropsychopharmacology

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2020 · $291,574

## Abstract

Project Summary
This application is for continuing support for an institutional Training Program in Neuropsychopharmacology.
The Program will train scientists who will carry out productive research in their individual fields effectively at the
"preclinical-clinical" interface, and more effectively translate research from the laboratory to the bedside in
mental health. This objective is addressed by having the postdoctoral Fellows attend specific courses and
activities, by arranging for exposure of all non-physicians to clinical research-oriented physician-scientists and
by facilitating interactions between preclinical and clinical investigators. The didactic portion of the Program
comprises about 15% of a postdoctoral Fellow's time; most of their time is spent doing research in the facilities
of one or more of the 29 faculty members of the Training Program. The approaches and expertise of the faculty
are broad and diverse, and enable us to provide training at the molecular, cellular, neuroanatomical, animal
behavioral and/or clinical level. Support is requested for four postdoctoral and two predoctoral Fellows yearly.
Postdoctoral Fellows in the Program will be either (1) students with doctoral degrees in pharmacology,
neuroscience, psychology, psychobiology or a related discipline, or (2) physicians who have completed at least
three years of specialist training in psychiatry or, in selected instances, other specialty areas (e.g., pediatrics,
neurology). One of the postdoctoral slots is targeted preferentially to a physician-scientist. Predoctoral fellows
will be graduates of a four-year program in biology, chemistry, psychology or a related discipline; upon
successful completion of the program, they will receive a doctoral degree in pharmacology or neuroscience.
The multidisciplinary program involves faculty from six departments in the School of Medicine as well as faculty
from the Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Arts and Sciences. The faculty members of the Training Program
have a history of collaboration in both teaching and research projects, and could easily accommodate co-
mentoring arrangements between physicians and non-physicians. The predoctoral Fellows are advanced
graduate students in pharmacology or neuroscience and take a series of courses designed to provide them
with background in the anatomical, biochemical and physiological bases of pharmacology, with an emphasis
on neuropsychopharmacology. Specific courses taught by Training Program faculty and other activities have
been developed that emphasize the consideration of clinical practice in psychiatry in the conduct of basic
research related to behavior.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9956616
- **Project number:** 5T32MH014654-43
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Wade H Berrettini
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $291,574
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1977-07-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9956616

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9956616, Training Program in Neuropsychopharmacology (5T32MH014654-43). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9956616. Licensed CC0.

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