The Rutgers Addiction Research Center has collated addiction-related resources to support your grant-writing and research.
- Funding Opportunities: This is a list of funding announcements from multiple organizations, including the NIH, that may be of interest to Rutgers addiction researchers.
- Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities: Johns Hopkins University has created a comprehensive list of postdoctoral research funding opportunities. While this list is not specific to addiction research, many opportunities listed could be utilized to conduct addiction-related research.
- Useful Grant Text
- Facilities and Resources List: This is a list of possible facilities and resources, including the RARC, that you may wish to include on the Facilities & Other Resources page of your grant application. If you are aware of additional facilities or resources that may be of interest to other faculty members within the RARC community, please send a description to RARC Program Manager, Emily Balcke (emily.balcke@rutgers.edu) for inclusion on this list.
- Text for Adding Translational Components to your Grant: Please find text that can be added to both the Research Strategy and Budget Justification sections of your grant application regarding translational services offered by the RARC that you may be interested in taking advantage of for your project.
- Text for Overview of RARC and Associated Activities & Initiatives – The RARC has curated a comprehensive list of our activities and initiatives. If you are submitting a grant, we encourage you to include information about the RARC in your plan to demonstrate the wealth of support you have access to and strengthen your application.
- Text for Adding Administrative Support to your Grant: To help coordinate efforts across faculty who need part-time administrative support, the Rutgers Addiction Research Center has an administrative assistant. If you would like to budget part of the RARC administrative assistant’s effort into your project, please reach out to RARC Program Manager, Emily Balcke (emily.balcke@rutgers.edu).
- Mock Grant Review Program: Preparing a NIH grant submission? The RARC has a panel of senior, well-funded investigators available to provide an internal review of your proposal before you submit
- Grant Writing Resources for Early Career Investigators: The RARC has curated a comprehensive list of grant tools and writing resources designed to support you through the process of writing a grant.
- Training Grant Support Office: RBHS has created a website to provide information pertaining to NIH training grants 24/7 to current and prospective administrators and faculty.
- RWJMS Office of Research: The RWJMS Office of Research offers grant preparation assistance for large and complex submissions for all RWJMS faculty. Examples of services are included but not limited to: Timeline development, NOFO (FOA) checklists, document solicitation and review, general copy-editing, Specific Aims review, and grant writing tips. Please contact Paul Copeland (paul.copeland@rutgers.edu) to discuss how this office might support your planned submissions.
- Office of Statistical Consulting: The Office of Statistical Consulting provides researchers, faculty, students, and administrators throughout the university support with collecting and interpreting data. Researchers from a broad range of disciplines, such as the biological sciences, computer science, education, library science, and the social sciences, can receive expert assistance from the consulting office either on an hourly basis or through long term, collaborative projects.
- Clinical and Translational Science Awards Resources: Rutgers is home to the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS). NJ ACTS supports clinical and translational research, broadly defined by providing services, expertise, and financial resources; facilitates collaboration among partners; provides training and workforce development; and improves the public’s understanding of science and research. They offer a variety of support resources to researchers, especially those conducting clinical trials.
- Faculty Workshop on Mentoring Biomedical Graduate Students and Postdocs: The NIH mandates faculty training in mentoring PhD students and postdocs. To help make programs more competitive for training grants and individual fellowships, the School of Graduate Studies and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs recently hosted a workshop for faculty in the biological sciences. Janet Alder has created a series of slides to serve as a resource, available here.
- Rutgers CAS Clinical Research Opportunities in NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network: Rutgers Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies supports the collaboration and partnership in the prestigious NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN), a significant step in advancing addiction research and treatment. The CTN connects academic institutions with community-based addiction treatment programs to test evidence-based interventions, ensuring inclusivity and collaboration between researchers and community programs. Rutgers’ involvement as a partner institution with the Greater NY Node, led by NYU and Columbia University, with Montefiore as another partner, will open opportunities for funded research and community-engaged projects. For an overview of the New York Node of NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network, check these presentation slides. For direct support, please reach out to Denise Hien (denise.hien@rutgers.edu).
- Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Survey/Data Core: The IFHSDC at Rutgers University operates as a National Institutes for Health (NIH) compliant core facility, and as such serves as a centralized shared survey, data, and research resource facility for its users. The core enables access to a variety of data sets and resources. The IFHSDC provides analytical, survey, and general support services to investigators through experienced and specialized research personnel with the expertise to design and conduct scientifically rigorous and efficient survey and data analyses.
- Postdoc Opportunities Board: Are you looking to hire a postdoc? A coalition of postdoc offices from 17 institutions, its majority Big Ten institutions, have created the Postdoc Opportunities Board to promote postdoc recruitment. You may use this free resource to recruit exceptional candidates for your open positions.
- Words Matter – Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction: This resource from NIDA offers background information on the affect of stigma on those with substance use disorders, and terms to use and avoid to reduce stigma and negative bias when discussing addiction.
- Scientific Writing and Communication Resources: The RARC has curated a list of links designed to support you with both your writing and communicating your research with the public.
- Research with Rutgers: Research at Rutgers is at the cutting edge of science and technology. To stimulate new research partnerships that drive the economic engine for progress, this innovative tool allows you to search our expansive research network for available expertise, competencies, and capabilities in STEM-related fields across Rutgers University.
- Open Access Publishing Opportunities for Rutgers Researchers: Explore a growing list of publishers whose journals offer reduced Article Processing Charges (APCs) – some down to $0 – for Open Access articles.
- Outreach and Advocacy Resources for Early Career Investigators: RSA NAPE members have provided a regularly updated repository about why and how researchers who want to become involved in outreach can find opportunities that interest them.
- Rutgers Core Services: This set of slides, developed by Vincent Smeraglia, Executive Director of RUBRIC & Core Services in the Rutgers University Office for Research, introduces opportunities for researchers offered by the Office for Research.
- UBHC Behavioral Research and Training Institute: The Behavioral Research and Training Institute provides high-quality academic and clinical training and consultation through a variety of centers and programs.
- Working with the Media (Rutgers-New Brunswick and RBHS only): Rutgers Communications and Marketing (R-Comm) offers direct support to Rutgers-New Brunswick and RBHS researchers looking to publicize their research using multiple forms of media to bring their research to new audiences, advance their careers, and promote their departments, schools and centers. R-Comm has developed a series of Media Training slides. To learn more about how R-Comm can support you, visit their website: https://communications.rutgers.edu/. For direct support: Rutgers-New Brunswick researchers can reach out to Megan Schumann (megan.schumann@rutgers.edu), and RBHS researchers can reach out to Patti Zielinski (patti.zielinski@rutgers.edu).
- Appointments with Health Sciences Librarians: If you have research questions or other in-depth library questions, you can always Ask a Librarian through chat or email or request a Systematic Review Consultation, but now you can also sign up to meet online with a Health Sciences librarian at a date and time that works with your schedule.
- Data Dashboards
- New Jersey Department of Health New Jersey Overdose Data Dashboard: This dashboard uses interactive data visualizations to display opioid and other drug-related overdose indicators for public health practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, and the public. This data may support grant submissions and publications.
- New Jersey Coordinator for Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies Opioid-Related Data: Access these materials for regularly updated opioid-related statistics that can be used in articles and grant submissions. Data can be further separated by county and race.
- SAMHSA Studies Data Analysis System: Explore and analyze substance use and mental health data to better understand critical public health issues. Run a quick crosstab analysis and view your results as tables and charts.
- FAIR Health FH Trackers – Opioid Tracker: The heat map in this section represents opioid abuse and dependence claim lines as a percentage of all medical claim lines in 2022 for each state. Clicking on a state displays an infographic for that state
- Prenatal Action for Taking Healthy Steps (PATHS) Toolkit: This new resource comes out of a NIDA Clinical Trails Network (CTN) study on MOUD during pregnancy (MOMS Study). The PATHS toolkit offers evidence-based educational resources about the use of medication to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) during and after pregnancy. Resources include videos, discussion guides, fact sheets, flyers, posters, and social media messaging.
- The National Academies Consensus Study Report, Cannabis Policy Impacts Public Health and Health Equity: NASEM released a report reviewing cannabis availability and regulatory frameworks in the U.S. It highlights the lack of federal guidance for protecting public health, leading to inconsistent state protections. The report recommends stronger federal leadership, a robust research agenda, and strategies to minimize public health risks.
- Results from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: This report provides key findings from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on substance use, mental health, and treatment among the noninstitutionalized U.S. population aged 12 or older. Estimates are presented by age group and by race/ethnicity for selected measures.
- Exploring Psychedelics and Entactogens as Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders: Proceedings of a Workshop (2022): These proceedings released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine summarize a 1.5-day public workshop that brought together experts and key stakeholders from academia, government, industry, and non-profit organizations to explore the use of psychedelics and entactogens – including LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA – as treatments for psychiatric disorders, such as major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders.
- CAS/JSAD Photo Library: The Rutgers Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has curated a gallery of over 1,000 publicly available images related to substance use that can be used in your promotional materials, blogs, websites, etc.
- Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (JSAD): The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has been based at Rutgers University since 1962. JSAD is a multidisciplinary journal, publishing research on all aspects of the use of alcohol, other licit and illicit substances, and inhalants; tobacco and e-cigarette use; the misuse of prescription medication; and behavioral addictions, including gambling and gaming.