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ing the recommendations of the institute's Tobacco Research Implementation Group. Creation of the tobacco use research centers was the highest of nine priorities recommended by the group. A transdisciplinary approach to research about tobacco use and addiction was the topic of a national conference convened in July 1998 by NIDA and cosponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

"This partnership represents an extraordinary opportunity," said Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "We hope to increase our understanding of effective policies in tobacco use prevention and treatment and to put that knowledge into practice as quickly as possible in the real world."

The centers' locations, principal investigators, and research themes follow:

The Brown University Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at the Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI

Principal Investigator: David B. Abrams, Ph.D.
Theme: identify early childhood and lifetime psychiatric factors that determine smoking initiation, dependence, use patterns, cessation, and response to cessation treatment;
The University of California at Irvine

Principal Investigator: Frances M. Leslie, Ph.D.
Theme: identify predictors of nicotine addiction in animals and tobacco susceptibility and use in humans using a shared conceptual model across multiple levels of analysis;
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator: C. Anderson Johnson, Ph.D.
Theme: preventing tobacco use among youth of diverse cultures;
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Principal Investigator: Caryn Lerman, Ph.D.
Theme: identifying the bio-behavioral basis of smoking initiation, smoking treatment, and harm from tobacco exposure;
University of Minn
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Contact: Michelle Muth
mmuth@ngmsmtp.nida.nih.gov
301-443-6245
NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
17-Oct-1999


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