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About Us
What is CDAAR?
CDAAR, The Center for Drug Abuse and AIDS Research is a program funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of a CDAAR is to “enhance basic, clinical, epidemiological, prevention, and applied research on drug abuse and HIV infection through the support of shared resources.”
What is TNC?
TNC, the Tufts University Nutrition Collaborative, is one of the first CDAAR programs in the country. TNC represents a partnership between three East Coast medical institutions and their affiliated hospitals: Tufts University School of Medicine/Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts; Brown University School of Medicine/Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island; and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
Each institution has distinct research emphases in HIV-infected drug users that offer great potential for research collaboration and synergy.
The long term vision of TNC is to:
- generate research on nutrition, endocrine, and metabolic (NEM) disorders among drug users at risk for or with HIV infection, and
- become a national resource center for other institutions and investigators who want to conduct similar research.
Tufts University is the administrative center for this project. Investigators from each of the collaborating institutions form the TNC Executive Committee and will coordinate Center-wide studies, evaluate Developmental Award applications, and offer the following Core Services:
- Administrative (Tufts University)
- Developmental (Tufts University)
- Drug User Resources (Brown University/Miriam Hospital)
- Nutrition and Metabolism (Tufts University)
- Endocrine (Johns Hopkins)
- Epidemiology/Biostatistics Cores (Tufts University)
TNC Investigators and Members
For more information about the investigators involved with TNC, please access our TNC Investigator Directory and TNC Member Directory.
TNC Investigators are those investigators from the collaborating institutions who are directly involved in developing and carrying out the services of TNC Cores.
TNC Members are investigators from the above institutions who are involved with HIV and drug use research, and who want to utilize the services provided by TNC Cores and collaborate with other TNC members and investigators.
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