The primary goals of this K24 competing renewal application are to enable Christian Hopfer, M.D. to conduct career development activities to enhance his patient-oriented addiction research and to provide high-quality mentorship to early-career investigators. The renewal will enable Dr. Hopfer to have protected time to devote to career development and mentoring of clinical researchers. Dr. Hopfer was promoted to Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine due to the success of his research, teaching, and clinical program. Dr. Hopfer's major goals of his initial award were accomplished with obtaining and leading a NIDA funded R25 medical student research education program, acting as the executive director of the Developmental Psychobiology Research Group (DPRG) whose affiliated T32 program was renewed, obtaining new research funding, and mentoring junior investigators. Dr.Hopfers' research plan for this renewal application involves continued work as a PI on NIDA funded research focused on understanding genetic and environmental influences on the progression or desistance of substance use disorders among high-risk youth utilizing a joint twin/family study design as well as understanding the impact of legal marijuana access on psychiatric and behavioral outcomes. He plans to expand his search for biomarkers for substance use disorders that have been previously conducted utilizing molecular genetic approaches to now include proteomic, metabolomics, RNA-seq, and lipidomic approaches. Dr.Hopfer mentors trainees in multiple areas of research training including: 1) Understanding clinical aspects of substance use and abuse, 2) Twin/family and molecular approaches to examining the etiology of substance use and correlated disorders, 3) Preparing scientific papers and presenting findings, 4) Developing and writing successful project proposals, and 5) conducting responsible research. He will accomplish his training mission through individual and group mentoring and collaborating with key colleagues with expertise in biostatistics and state of the art measurement technologies for identifying biomarkers of substance use.

Public Health Relevance

of this application is that there is a critical shortage of clinician- investigators in the field of substance use disorders. Dr. Hopfer has a strong track record of mentoring clinical investigators, and this career development award will allow him to expand his research mentoring program.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24)
Project #
5K24DA032555-07
Application #
9725947
Study Section
Behavioral Genetics and Epidemiology Study Section (BGES)
Program Officer
Weinberg, Naimah Z
Project Start
2013-04-01
Project End
2023-06-30
Budget Start
2019-07-01
Budget End
2020-06-30
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2019
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Colorado Denver
Department
Psychiatry
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
041096314
City
Aurora
State
CO
Country
United States
Zip Code
80045
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