Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
10/29/2012
Seminar: Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
by Kamlesh Asotra, GaneShiva Consultants
Science Library, Room 240
29 October 2012
(11:00 am – 12:15 pm)
The Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) funds research that enhances
understanding of tobacco use, prevention and cessation, the social, economic and
policy-related aspects of tobacco use, and tobacco-related diseases in the State
of California. Awards are available for pre-doctoral fellowships,
post-doctoral fellowships, exploratory research, and research projects.
Dr. Astora will discuss the TRDRP program and strategies for Successful Grant
Writing. The TRDRP program funds research on the following priority areas:
- Advance policies to reduce environmental exposure to the toxic effects of
tobacco smoke, tobacco smoke residue, cigarette butts, and other tobacco
products. Exposure and toxicity of cigarette butt waste or Biomarkers of THS
exposure
- Advance innovative research in the early diagnosis of tobacco-related diseases,
e.g., the role of inflammation and oxidative stress in tobacco-related disease
pathogenesis or culturally sensitive health communications on discussing
detection and lung cancer
- Expand the scientific basis to inform the regulation of nicotine and tobacco
products at the local, state and national level, e.g., the results of targeted
marketing of putative modified risk products, e.g., e-cigarettes, etc., or how
consumers may smoke de-nicotinized cigarettes differently
- Prevent and treat tobacco use and promote equity among disproportionately
impacted groups. Studies on the basic neuroscience of nicotine addiction, e.g.,
targeted marketing aimed toward girls and young women or desensitization of
nicotine’s effects on smokers by interrupting the causal chain in nicotine
addiction thereby leading to more effective smoking cessation treatments
- Advance the ability of communities throughout California to assess and limit the
influence of the tobacco industry, e.g., policy research that documents lives
and money saved by tobacco control ordinances or the tobacco industry’s role in
maintaining smoking in Indian Gaming Casinos