A group of endocrine program faculty under the leadership of Dr. Dipak K. Sarkar applied and received a T32 grant award notice from NIH/NIAAA. This grant started on August 1, 2019, and it is currently funding four postdoctoral fellows each year and a total of 10 postdoctoral fellows for a period of 5 years to train in the area of the molecular neuroscience of alcoholism and drug abuse research at Rutgers. The Molecular Neuroscience of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Training (MNADRT) program will employ multidisciplinary approaches, including molecular and cellular techniques, electrophysiology, optogenetics, designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs (DREADD), stem cell technology, neuroimaging, neuroimmunology, neurobehavioral pharmacology, and genetics to increase the understanding of the genetic and environmental influences on the nervous system controlling stress dysregulation and pathogenesis in alcoholism and drug abuse. This training grant is a unique collaborative program because it has faculty members from various schools and departments of Rutgers. Visit the MNADRT website for more information.