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CENTURY
Yale University
School of Medicine
SAC-203
Connecticut
Mental Health Center
34 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06519

Phone:
203-974-7591

Fax:
203-974-7606

E-mail:
infocentury@yale.edu
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CENTURY/TTURC Core Services
How we can help you with your tobacco-related research project
CENTURY/TTURC was formed to help smokers who have the greatest need for
help, those who cannot quit or have trouble doing so. For them, traditional
approaches often do not work. Our mission is to come up with new approaches
to help those remaining smokers. To do this we are taking a transdisciplinary
approach that attacks on the problem from all angles.
To help us do that, we'd like to help you. If you have an ongoing tobacco-
or nicotine-related research project, or one that you are planning, we'd
love to know about it. Perhaps you could participate in our regularly
scheduled seminars on tobacco projects. We also have experts who can work
with you as you design your project, implement it and evaluate the results.
We provide pilot project funding. We have a wealth of information and
resources to share. The benefit to us is that we find out what you are
doing, which could help us better understand and develop our approach
to tobacco addiction.
Our multi-disciplinary research team includes experts in psychiatry,
behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, economics, women's health
issues, clinical trial monitoring, biostatistics, public health, economics,
adolescent psychiatry, lab medicine, neurochemistry, policy issues and
molecular neuroscience.
Here is a description of the kind of services we can provide, along with
the names and numbers of people you can contact if you'd like to talk
with us or join our team.
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Bi-weekly seminars
- Our seminars include presentations of findings, brainstorming
sessions, and study updates. Presenters include Yale faculty and
experts from around the nation. Meetings are held at the Substance
Abuse Center at the Connecticut Mental Health Center on Park Street
on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from noon to 1 p.m.
To receive email announcements of upcoming seminars, please contact
Dana Cavallo at (203) 974-7607 or dana.cavallo@yale.edu. |
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Pilot project funding
- We offer funding for pilot projects involving transdisciplinary
research relating to tobacco use. Specifically, the research should
lead to a greater understanding of factors associated with treatment
resistance and how to reverse these risk factors. Two funding levels
are available, $12,500 or $25,000 per year. For more information,
please contact Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin at (203) 974-7595 or suchitra.krishnan-sarin@yale.edu. |
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E-mail news list
- We provide regular updates about tobacco news relating to Connecticut
and the rest of the country. We also provide information about our
activities and those of our fellow centers. For more information,
please contact Ann Agro at (203) 974-7591 or ann.agro@yale.edu. |
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Career development
assistance - We provide summer fellowships to students interested
in tobacco research, sponsor speakers with expertise in tobacco
research to give talks within your department, and provide travel
scholarships for scientific exchange by visiting other TTURCs. Our
goal is to train new investigators who can conduct cutting-edge
research related to tobacco. For more about this, please contact
Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin at (203) 974-7595 or suchitra.krishnan-sarin@yale.edu. |
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Expertise on sex-specific issues relating to tobacco - To investigators
interested in studying sex-specific factors in nicotine-dependence and
treatment, we can provide assistance in instrument development, study
design, data analysis and interpretation of findings. To find out more,
please contact Carolyn Mazure at (203) 764-6600 or carolyn.mazure@yale.edu. |
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Data analysis and data management consultation - During the course
of our work, we have developed research measuring tools and statistical
methodologies for data analysis appropriate to tobacco research. We
can provide consultation on this and client tracking methods to researchers
interested in tobacco studies. For more information Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin at (203) 974-7595 or suchitra.krishnan-sarin@yale.edu. |
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Laboratory analysis and services - Our core laboratory has specific
expertise in measuring nicotine and cotinine in plasma, urine and saliva
as a measure of tobacco/nicotine exposure in both treatment studies
and nicotine challenges. As core laboratory resources permit, every
effort is made to support other funded projects relating to tobacco
and nicotine in addition to CENTURY/TTURC projects. For more information,
please contact Peter Jatlow at (203) 688-2446 or peter.jatlow@yale.edu. |
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Scientific and administrative consultation - We have developed a system
of centralized recruitment for tobacco study participants and we are
coordinating the administration of a core assessment battery to those
study participants so that we can maximize our cross-study knowledge
about risk factors relating to treatment failure and how to improve
treatment. In addition, we can also provide recruitment services to
funded tobacco projects, including targeted advertising, phone screening
and a centralized intake process. For more information, please contact
Sherry McKee at (203) 974-7598 or sherry.mckee@yale.edu. |
For more information about our core services, please contact Suchitra
Krishnan-Sarin at suchitra.krishnan-sarin@yale.edu.
CENTURY is the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale.
TTURC, a part of CENTURY, is the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research
Center. TTURC is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National
Cancer Institute, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. CENTURY and
TTURC are designed to provide support services to other tobacco research
at the Yale campus.
We are based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center at Yale University
School of Medicine in New Haven, with research facilities at locations
around the Yale campus, including the School of Public Health, the Yale
Psychiatric Institute, the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit and Yale-New
Haven Hospital. We also have research facilities at the Connecticut Veterans
Administration Medical Centers at West Haven and Newington, and the University
of Connecticut Health Center.
Yale TTURC is one of seven centers around the country conducting a wide
variety of transdisciplinary tobacco-related research. The other participating
centers are Brown University, University of California at Irvine, University
of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, University
of Southern California, and University of Wisconsin.
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