BHI Core member and Associate Director in RARC, Dr. Kristina Jackson, Awarded T32 Grant to Launch Postdoctoral Program in Alcohol Research

Dr. Kristina Jackson, Professor of Psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Associate Director of Epidemiology, Etiology & Prevention at the Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC), and Core Member at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI), has been awarded a T32 training grant.

The grant from NIAAA will provide training in the etiology and consequences of alcohol involvement across the lifespan. The interdisciplinary training program will be led by a core team of 11 faculty mentors affiliated with the RARC. These faculty are from across Rutgers and have active NIH funding portfolios and successful mentoring histories. Trainees will be able to customize advanced methodologic training specific to their research training goals across the areas of genomic analyses, longitudinal and intensive longitudinal analysis, digital health, community-based research, treatment implementation, and intervention design.

The training program will consist of a two-year sequence of mentored and didactic experiences and individually tailored professional development activities. First-year trainees will receive specialized training in state-of-the-art methodology, data analysis, and data science; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; and responsible conduct of research including practices to enhance research rigor and transparency. This training grant will launch the scientific careers of the next generation of alcohol researchers through interdisciplinary alcohol training in an untapped, rigorous, and highly resourced addiction research environment.