ABCD Awards

The ABCD Consortium is made up of a Coordinating Center (CC), Data Analysis, Informatics & Resource Center (DAIRC), and 21 research sites across the country. The consortium has established various mechanisms to highlight the outstanding accomplishments of members internally and externally as evidenced below. Those include Investigator of the Year Awards and Staff of the Year Awards. Currently, principal investigators are asked to nominate awardees.

Investigator of the Year Awardees
The ABCD consortium acknowledges non-PI investigators in ABCD for particularly hard work and innovative contributions that have furthered the goals of the ABCD study. ABCD would particularly like to recognize outstanding efforts of individuals who helped overcome challenges that the consortium has faced and who have made consistent contributions as a member of the scientific or technical staff at any ABCD site or center. This award is given to one investigator every year at our annual meeting.

Staff of the Year Awardees
NIDA acknowledges study staff for particularly hard work and innovative contributions that have furthered the goals of the ABCD study. These meritorious contributions can be of many kinds and can be broad ranging, e.g., outreach, retention, screening, imaging, assessment, training, data management, technical development or support, etc. NIDA would particularly like to recognize outstanding efforts of individuals who helped overcome challenges at their sites or whose efforts provided benefits that extended to other sites in the consortium as well.