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Researchers To Study Genetics of Drug Dependence
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Business New Haven
12/9/2002
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - Yale researchers Joel Gelernter, M.D., Robert Malison, M.D., and colleagues have received a $1.6 million grant to conduct an international research-training program in the genetics of drug dependence.
The grant is part of the first International Collaborative Genetics Research Training Program awards that are given by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and seven partners. The six new research and training grants will support international collaborations in human genetic sciences.
Psychiatry professors Gelernter and Malison and colleagues at the Yale School of Medicine will collaborate with the medical faculty at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The Thai researchers will receive short- and long-term fellowships to train in the U.S. The project will also support one-month field exchange training rotations in Thailand for U.S. trainees.
"Substance dependence is a huge problem in Thailand now - historically it's often been a serious problem, but the current epidemic is really unprecedented," said Gelernter. Genetic factors are known to be important in determining risk for substance dependence. The purpose of the project is to train Thai investigators in the genetics of substance dependence, to help build up research capacity to address this problem.
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