Yale Department of Psychiatry's Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP), now in its 15th year, is designed to meet the national goal of increasing the number of fully-trained psychiatric physician-scientists conducting clinical and translational patient-oriented research in mental health.
The National Institute of Mental Health recently announced the renewal of NRTP's T32 training grant, which will fund the program through June of 2017.
Robert Malison, MD, professor of psychiatry, is director of the training program, and Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, is associate director.
In order to be effective independent investigators, psychiatric physician-scientists must be fully trained in both clinical neuroscience and modern clinical-translational research methodologies. The ever-increasing complexity of the science and methods require that individuals receive specialized training in order to take full advantage of the rapid advances occurring in the field.
NRTP utilizes a curriculum designed to give trainees a mastery of the fundamentals of basic molecular and cellular neurobiology, neuropharmacology, neuroimaging, psychiatric genetics and the responsible conduct of psychiatric research in human subjects. Trainees benefit from individualized mentorship by members of a large and multidisciplinary group of research faculty within Yale's Department of Psychiatry.
To learn more about the Neuroscience Research Training Program in Psychiatry, visit the program's web site: https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/nrtp.