Learning for Early Careers in Addiction & Diversity (LEAD Program): Now Recruiting!
The Learning for Early Careers in Addiction and Diversity (LEAD) program offers mentorship and training to postdoctoral fellows and assistant professors who are pursuing independent research careers in substance use and substance use disorder treatment.
This support is aimed at individuals from racial and ethnic minoritized groups who are underrepresented among NIH-funded investigators in this field.
The LEAD Program uses the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN) as a platform for training early-career
investigators. This 3-year training program is based at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and visiting scholars spend three summers in a 4-week intensive program at UCSF.
During the academic year, scholars work with their primary mentor to collaborate on substance use and substance use disorder treatment research conducted in the CTN, develop a professional research network, and conduct a pilot study that will serve as a preliminary study for subsequent NIH funding.
The program provides travel and housing funds for scholars, as well as pilot study funding.
The 2025 summer program begins on July 7th and ends August 1st.
The application deadline is November 29, 2024.