Five IDeA-funded programs from across the country, including the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Rural Drug Addiction Research Center, have joined together to present the 2022 Symposium on Substance Use Research. The symposium will take place Nov. 8-10, via Zoom. It will focus on leveraging research, knowledge and insight on substance use.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required to attend.

The virtual format will include keynote speakers, panel discussions, short research presentations and a rapid-fire poster session. Featured keynotes include Michael Taffe, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego; and Yasmin Hurd, professor of psychiatry and the director for the Addiction Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Taffe will present “Update on Racial Inequities in NIH (National Institutes of Health) Grant Funding,” and Hurd will present “Neurobiological Pathways to Addiction to Drive Novel Treatment Interventions.”

The five IDeA-funded programs co-hosting this event:

• The Rural Drug Addiction Research Center (COBRE)

• The COBRE on Opioids and Overdose

• The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute

• The West Virginia INBRE at Marshall University

• The COBRE Center for Addiction and Disease Risk Exacerbation at Brown University

More information on the symposium is available here.