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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

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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