The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Dougherty, Donald M
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
Collaborating Institutions
UTAUSTIN UMB
This competing renewal of our longitudinal project proposes to elucidate mechanisms driving the initiationand progression of substance use is consistent with NIDA and NIMH's recently outlined strategic plans (NIDA,2016; NIH CRAN, 2015; NIMH, 2015) prioritizing research on the period between adolescence and youngadulthood. Defining features of typical adolescent development are increases in sensation seeking followed bymore gradual increases in impulse control (described by the Dual Systems model).
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Reeves, William Brian
Funded by
NIH-DIABETES/DIGESTIVE/KIDNEY DISEASES
Collaborating Institutions
PENNSTATE
The program is designed to provide short-term experience and training inbiomedical research for undergraduate students from racial/ethnic-underrepresented groups, and forstudents from disadvantaged backgrounds. For the renewal, Penn State is joining with the Universityof Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) to enhance recruitment of URM studentsand increase the scope of student research experiences. W. Brian Reeves, M.D., Chair of Medicine atUTHSCSA and previously the PI of Penn State STEP-UP will serve as the contact PI. Dr.
