Center Goals
To promote state-of-the-art research, education and dissemination of evidence-based practices focusing on:
- Preclinical models that will support the development of personalized treatments for substance-related disorders
- Population research involving epidemiology, community and policy interventions to promote population health
- Clinical-translational research that will generate new knowledge and contribute to our learning healthcare system
Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Research Center
The Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Research Center (WF-TARC) invites applications for pilot grants to support research on behavioral correlates and neural substrates associated with vulnerability and resilience to alcohol use disorder. The goals of this program are to attract new scientific expertise to complement ongoing research supported by the WF-TARC, to encourage and promote multidisciplinary and translational alcohol research, and to support preliminary investigations to attract new extramural alcohol-related funding at Wake Forest School of Medicine. These awards are open to all faculty with a rank of Instructor or higher from Wake Forest Health Sciences. Current WF-TARC projects leverage the strengths and advantages of animal models and human subjects research and include molecular, cellular, circuit, and whole-brain analyses. Four pilot grants will be awarded for up to $22,500/year for two years (pending satisfactory progress). In addition, we are partnering with our Institutional Center for Research on Substance Use and Addiction (CRSUA) to solicit highly translational applications that include population health, clinical, and preclinical investigators. These joint WF-TARC/CRSUA awards, which will undergo both WF-TARC and CRSUA review, may have a budget of up to $55,000 in the first year (and $22,500 in the second year).
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2019
Start Date: January 1, 2020
If interested, please contact:
Sara R. Jones, PhD
srjones@wakehealth.edu
Associate Dean for Basic Science Research
Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
Co-Director, WF-TARC
Principal Investigator, Pilot Project Core, WF-TARC
