Overview of TTURC Partners Initiative The "Partners with Tobacco Use Research Centers" (Partners) and the "Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers" (TTURC) programs are a collaborative effort to study new ways of combating tobacco use and nicotine addiction, and to help translate the results and implications of this work for policy makers, practitioners, and the public. The TTURC initiative was initially funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The overall goal of this initiative is stimulate integrated research that will significantly advance our understanding of tobacco use and nicotine addiction and that will help to combat the toll from tobacco use. The Partners program is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and supports tobacco-related policy research and communications activities at the funded TTURCs. The Universities jointly funded through the TTURC/Partners program are: Brown University University of California at Irvine University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown University University of Southern California University of Wisconsin Yale University In addition, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute was funded in the second round of the TTURC initative. The Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides technical direction and assistance to the Partners program.