Innovations for Substance Use Disorders

Innovations for Substance Use Disorders (I4SUD) is an Executive Education certificate program offered to select applicants through Johns Hopkins Carey Business School (JHU CBS). The program will enroll researchers who are motivated to solve challenges related to substance use disorders (SUDs). During the program, participants will work individually or with their team to assess if their pharmaceutical, digital health, or medical device-related inventions can be transformed into innovations to address problems in SUDs. I4SUD combines asynchronous and synchronous online activities; a multi-day trip to JHU CBS in Baltimore, MD, for workshops led by world-class faculty, visits to operational SUD programs, networking/community building, including meeting NIDA program officers, and the development of a commercialization plan to make participants competitive for follow-on funding opportunities including but not limited to the NIDA-supported “$100,000 Start a SUD Startup” Challenge, and SBIR and STTR grant programs. Participants who complete the program also have the opportunity to win a cash prize through a pitch competition and will earn a certificate of completion from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Executive Education.