Postdoctoral Fellowships in Alcohol Research available at the University of Connecticut (UConn) School of Medicine

The Alcohol Research Center at UConn offers NIH/NIAAA-funded fellowships for postdoctoral training within the following areas:

1. (a) Adolescent substance use disorder treatment--neurophsyiological and genetic moderators of treatment outcome. Mentor: Lance Bauer.
2. (b) Longitudinal studies of risk factors for alcoholism. Mentor: Victor Hesselbrock
3. (c) Studies of behavioral treatments (contingency management) for alcoholism. Mentor: Nancy Petry
4. (d) Studies of treatment process, contingency management, and experience sampling methodologies. Mentor: Mark Litt
5. (e) Studies of daily process, experience sampling research methodology and its applications to daily alcohol consumption. Mentor: Howard Tennen
6. (g) Studies of the genetics of substance dependence, and genetic factors affecting the acute response to alcohol. Mentors: Henry Kranzler and Jon Covault.
7. (h) Studies of the effects of advertising on alcohol use and alcohol policy. Mentor: Tom Babor

The accomplishments of our trainees are outstanding. The data supporting this statement are as follows:

1. (1) All but one of the trainees graduated between 2000 and 2010 now holds a faculty or faculty-equivalent position within a university or research institute. All of the graduates from the past 5 yrs have attained these positions.
2. (2) The number of full length articles authored or co-authored by 2000-2010 trainees during and after the training period averages 3.89 articles (range = 0.70-16.0 per year, median=3.33) per trainee per year.
3. (3) Several graduates from the past 10 yrs have obtained independent research grant support from the NIAAA.

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